An old war-horse may be stabled, Yet still it longs to gallop a thousand li; And a noble-hearted man though advanced in years Never abandons his proud aspirations.
Mandarin
斯大林同志在联共十八次代表大会上的报告中说：“老干部通常总是不多，比所需要的数量少，而且由于宇宙自然法则的关系，他们已部分地开始衰老死亡下去。”
斯大林同志在聯共十八次代表大會上的報告中説：“老幹部通常總是不多，比所需要的數量少，而且由於宇宙自然法則的關係，他們已部分地開始衰老死亡下去。”
sī dà lín tóng zhì zài lián gòng shí bā cì dài biǎo dà huì shàng de bào gào zhōng shuō ： “ lǎo gàn bù tōng cháng zǒng shì bù duō ， bǐ suǒ xū yào de shù liàng shào ， ér qiě yóu yú yǔ zhòu zì rán fǎ zé de guān xì ， tā men yǐ bù fēn dì kāi shǐ shuāi lǎo sǐ wáng xià qù ． ”
In his report to the Eighteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (B.), Comrade Stalin said, "... there are never enough old cadres, there are far less than required, and they are already partly going out of commission owing to the operation of the laws of nature."