• The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.

    Leonid Brezhnev: The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.
    "Selected Speeches and Writings". Book edited by Mikhail Andreevich Suslov, 1980.