Dmitri Volkogonov Quotes & Sayings

We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past — Dmitri Volkogonov

Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists — Dmitri Volkogonov

All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning — Dmitri Volkogonov

It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin. — Dmitri Volkogonov