In Soviet Armenia official propaganda said: "Perfect communism shines in the horizon". Local peasants couldn't understand and requested an explanation. State radio replied that, as the definition of communism is already clear, they should look up the definition of horizon. The definition they find is: "imaginary line which separates heaven from earth and gets further and further away from us as we approach it".

Cited in the Oral History of the Army, volume 10, page 204.