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"There are two kind of people in the world: those who survive up to retire ... and the rest. A pensioner is a person who is paid for not working. Everyone must respected old age as his near future, because everyone, if lucky, will become an old man."
"Anna Pavlovna was a resilient lady, because she could only rely on herself. Anna Pavlovna had neither a husband nor education. That's how life has been."
"Truly modern cinema cannot live without dreams, nightmares and visions that torment the protagonist all the time. Only thanks to them it is possible to penetrate into the contemporary man's hard-to-reach inner world. As you know, nightmares come in color and black-and-white."
"Once a year, all collectors were re-examined in shooting. If the shooter did not hit the minimum or did not hit the target at all ... he was left at work anyway."
"And yet we must prove that it is not age that determines the value of a person."
"The crime of the century is not lying on the street! It needs to be organized. But in order for you to open it, I should be the one to organize it!"
"In old age, pangs of conscience torment even villains. They do good deeds, as if atoning for sins. But you and me lived honestly, and come on, Kolya, let's die honestly."
"When a man tells the truth, somehow they do not believe him."
"No, I don't trust women. I know them better than you do."
"The defendant is an honest man! He's a saint... almost..."
"(to the question "what's with your hand", "what's with your cheek", etc.) It's trivia, gangster bullet."
"In fact, it is wrong that a pension is given in old age. Really it should be given from eighteen to thirty-five. The best age. During these years, it is a sin to work, you have to deal only with your personal life. And then you can go to work. There is no point in life anyway."
"It is in the West that they steal paintings. And here, oh Lord ... it's pointless. Whom to sell them to?"
"Yuri Nikulin — Nikolay Sergeevitch Myachikov, investigator"
"Yevgeny Yevstigneyev — Valentin Petrovich Vorobyov, engineer"
"Olga Aroseva — Anna Pavlovna Suzdaleva, cash collector"
"Georgi Burkov — Fyodor Fyodorovitch Fedyaev, Myachikov's boss"
"Andrei Mironov — Yury Yevgenyevitch Proskudin"
"Valentina Vladimirova — Masha, Vorobyov's wife"
"Yuri Belov — Petya, militsiaman"
"Roman Filippov — robber"
"Nina Agapova — museum keeper"
"Irina Murzaeva — old museum keeper"
"Lev Durov — driver of the collector car"
"Boris Runge — shoes shop director"
"Gotlib Roninson — doctor"
"Yuri Smirnov — locksmith"
"Georgi Kulikov — Vorobyov's colleague"
"Viktor Bajkov — Vorobyov's colleague"
"Yevgeni Perov — Vorobyov's colleague"
"Natalya Sajko — Vorobyov's colleague"
"— Vorobyov's colleague"
"Aleksandr Shirvindt — spokesman of the minister"
"Eldar Ryazanov — Myachikov's colleague"
"Yuri Yakovlev — narrator (voice)"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.