"I have not read your novel but I have carefully read the reviews of your manuscript, responses to it, which contain m…"

"You believe that we have violated the principle of freedom in your case. Yes, this is so if one understands freedom i…"

"National Socialism had created a new type of political criminals: criminals who had not committed a crime."

"We are restoring the Leninist norms of democracy. But Leninist norms are not the same as the bourgeois norms of democ…"

"Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society."

"Everyone who has read your book are unanimous in their judgment. They all think it is politically harmful for us. The…"

"It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years."

"No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate."

"We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published."

"Why should we add your book to the atomic weapons arrayed against us by our enemies. Publication of your book would h…"