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"As everyone knows, labor ennobles man, and that's why people go to work with pleasure."
"This is Shoura - nice but, unfortunately, active. At some point she was promoted to public work and there's been no way to discharge her from it ever since."
"I have children - a boy and... a boy. Two boys."
"(to Shoura, angrily): Go to... the accounting department!!! And even farther!"
"I won't live that long, I have a hazardous job!"
"That's all for you, Novoseltsev... Wash-out! My old woman is interested in you. Exploring your personal records!"
"Footwear is what makes woman."
"What distinguishes a businesswoman from a Woman? A gait! Just look how you walk! ....Huddle yourself up, tie yourself in a knot, shrivel like an old torn boot and here you are dashing to work as if hammering in polings! But look how we do. My head is up... eyes are down a little... everything is relaxed here... shoulders pulled back... I move freely from my hip... a spring-relaxed style of a panther ready for leap."
"Lyudmila Prokofyevna, where did you pick up this vulgarity? You wag your hips like a loose woman!"
"As a matter of fact, one could even teach a hare to smoke. There's nothing impossible for a person with intellect."
"Ryzhova, the bottle blond that always walks with string bags. Look, here she sits, all in terrible roses."
"In a woman, there should be mystery."
"Ryzhova: When a woman is told that she is a good girl, does it mean that she's an utter fool?"
"Kalougina: I have such an unstained reputation, it's high time to compromise me."
"Andrey Myagkov — Anatoly Yefremovich Novoseltsev"
"Alisa Freindlich — Lyudmila Prokofyevna Kalougina"
"Svetlana Nemolyayeva — Olga Petrovna Ryzhova"
"Oleg Basilashvili — Yuri Grigoryevich Samokhvalov"
"Liya Akhedzhakova — Verochka"
"Georgi Burkov — Zavkhoz (Logistics manager)"
"Lyudmila Ivanova — Activist Shoura"
"Pyotr Shcherbakov — Pyotr Ivanovich Boublikov"
"Nelly Pshennaya — Samokhvalov's wife"
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.