“Comrades! The work of building socialism has begun in the Union of Soviets and is growing more and more powerfully and successfully every year. In the iron noise of this great work, in the continuous, heroic tension of labor energy, time passes quickly, and we easily forget about what we lived yesterday. Forgotten by the fighters of the civil war and the battle that led the working class of the Union of Socialist Soviets to victory over the inhuman, irresponsible power of the tsar, landowners, and factory owners...”