Vladimir Bukovsky

This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking and who could follow his own way of thinking, of believing.

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.

The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.