If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

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We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

We hate our squalor.

We hate our squalor.

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to...

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to...

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth -...

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth -...

My body gets weak without truth.

My body gets weak without truth.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

I lived and languished.

I lived and languished.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

I have a trend of my own.

I have a trend of my own.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms...

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms...