A couple of phrases: Putin vs Stalin

Consolidation of achievements

“It was impossible to consolidate some things in 1993 in the law, not only in the main law, in the Constitution, in general in any law, because it was not simple. Well, let's say, there was no such distribution of the Internet and there was no much more - the first. The second - there was no such state in which our country is now ... It was difficult for us to formulate some things, especially those related to the sovereignty of the country or with the place of our country in the world. We could not then social guarantees, I apologize for tautology, guarantee, because the economy was in such a state that it was possible to accept any laws in parliament, but if they were not supported by finances, then it was more or less meaningless, and moreover, it was even harmful ... And now - no, now we have the same opportunity. The same indexation of pensions, for example, or minimum wage and so on. It was impossible then to write this in the main law. Now our economy is in a different state, we can, and if we can, then we must do it. ”

Vladimir Putin, President of Russia. Speaking at a meeting with a working group for preparing proposals on amendments to the Constitution on February 13, 2020

“What are the changes in the life of the USSR that have been realized from 1924 to 1936 and which the Constitutional Commission was supposed to reflect the constitution? .. What did we have in 1924? year? .. To start at least with the fact that our industry has grown up in gigantic power ... in the field of agriculture .. We now have the largest machine used in the world, armed with new equipment in the form of a comprehensive system of collective farms and state farms ... As for the turnover in the country, the merchants and speculators are expelled from this area ... Thus, the draft of the new constitution is the result ways, the result of already obtained conquests. He is, therefore, by registration and legislative consolidation of what has already been obtained in practice. ”

Joseph Stalin. " On the project of the Constitution of the Union of the SSR ." Report at the Extraordinary VIII All -Union Congress of Soviets on November 25, 1936