Comissar Razinin: This anonymous report was sent to me. They’re dragging the good name of our country through every cafe and nightclub. Here: How can the Bolshevik cause gain respect among the Muslims if your three representatives Bujlianoff, Iranoff and Kopalski get so drunk that they throw a carpet out of their hotel window and complain to the management that it didn’t fly?

- Ninotchka

The English proved less rational than the Bolsheviks at responding to vandalism. In the Soviet Union defacing the people’s property would have earned a sterner response.