“Love letters are supposed to be private. [Eva Braun] was very secretive about all that.” Quote by Gretl Braun
“I knew [Eva Braun] wrote to [Adolf Hitler], I would see her writing to him and I would see her reading his notes or letters. She kept all that in a safe at the Berghof and nobody got near that safe except Hitler or Eva.” WritingReadingSafeLettersNotes Author:Gretl Braun
“At the end, [Eva Braun] begged me to spare these letters [to Adolf Hitler] and bury them. She specifically wrote to me and told me over the phone not to read any of the letters, she made me promise.” MadeEndsPromiseLettersPhonesSpares Author:Gretl Braun
“I saw a few lines from a few, there were hundreds of them, all [Adolf Hitler] letters and [Eva Braun] replies written on carbon paper. I just saw that her letters to him were lengthy, his were much shorter. I wouldn't intrude on their privacy and I had given her my word.” GivenLinesSawsWrittenPaperLettersPrivacyCarbonLengthy Author:Gretl Braun
“I wish I had [letters], can you imagine their value, and I don't mean merely financially. I am sure they were accidentally destroyed or that Schaub found them and destroyed them. [Adolf] Hitler didn't want those letters read by anyone but Eva [Braun] and had made that point clear in the course of the years.” WantYearsMeanMadeValuesCoursesFoundWishClearImagineLettersDestroyed Author:Gretl Braun
“In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.” CountryRussiaRealizationSocialistBolsheviks Author:Leon Trotsky
“In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.” GivingIdeasCountryPartyStudyImpossibleTheoryRevolutionSocialismOctoberBolsheviksRussian RevolutionAppendixOctober Revolution Author:Leon Trotsky
“[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.” WritingThreeRevolutionMonthsDiedConceptionJanuaryThree Months Author:Leon Trotsky
“To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.” DoeStillsCountryVictorySocialismProletariatBourgeoisie Author:Leon Trotsky
“The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.” StillsTasksOrganizationRemainsProductionsSocialismSocialist Author:Leon Trotsky
“Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.” CountryEffortImpossibleAchieveVictoryTasksSocialismDefiniteCombined Effort Author:Leon Trotsky