You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.

- Mikhail Kalinin

The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

- Mikhail Kalinin

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leaders…

- Mikhail Kalinin

For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the po…

- Mikhail Kalinin

The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which l…

- Mikhail Kalinin

But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist s…

- Mikhail Kalinin

If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.

- Mikhail Kalinin