Transcriptions from 1975

Morning Walk

ConversationMarch 14, 1975, TehranTehran1 min
Participants:
PrabhupādaĀtreya Ṛṣi
Prabhupāda: ...they assemble together and people are unhappy. [break] They have renounced democracy, eh? Communist?
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Well, they have some sort of democracy themselves.
Prabhupāda: No, they are dictatorship. Actually, Stalin's dictatorship was going on.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: Yes. It's all dictatorship. Democracy is also a dictatorship, but by election. They elect a fool, and then he can be..., do whatever he wants.
Prabhupāda: [chuckles] Yes.
Ātreya Ṛṣi: He will try to be as powerful as he can.
Prabhupāda: [japa][end]