Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Shimanovsky [ru] wrote in his last letter to his wife before his execution: "Russia will be free, no matter how hard its enemies try, and this faith gives me the opportunity to die in peace".
I call on you to proclaim with me: "Long live the Red Workers' Army and long live the honest labor Workers' and Peasants' Soviet Republic!“ It will not be a slave and will fight to the last drop of blood.
[2] Boris Yeltsin during the August 1991 coup attempt wrote in the Obshchaya Gazeta [ru]: "The days of the conspirators are numbered.
In his opinion, the democratization of societies belonging to a "power" civilization is possible only due to a special combination of circumstances arising after external shocks and crises.
[15] The slogan is also used by Russians fighting in the Russo-Ukrainian War on the side of Ukraine, notably in the Freedom of Russia Legion.