Soviet actor Georgi Burkov in his memoirs first released in 1998 (found by Maxim Mirovich):

> The Bolsheviks need the atomic bomb to stay in power, i.e. against their own people. It won't be long before they start blackmailing the whole world, so that the whole world begs us, the people, not to make a revolution and to tolerate these ghouls and support them

Very much to the point both then and now.
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So true! And it was always the case: "We need nuclear weapons to protect our sovereignty!"— and by sovereignty they always understand the ability to keep torturing own people indefinitely.

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