Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken.
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So far, the Far Eastern focal point of danger is the most active.It is possible, however, that the center of the menace may shift to Europe. Evidence of this is provided, for instance, by [Adolf] Hitler's recent interview given to a French paper. In this interview, Hitler seems to attempt to say peaceful things. But this "peacefulness" of his is so thickly interspersed with threats against France and the Soviet Union that nothing remains of the "peacefulness".
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Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.
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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to make our labor more effective, our life more cultured? Such will be the criteria with which millions of voters will approach candidates, casting away those who are unfit, striking them off lists, advancing better ones, nominating them for elections.
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To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach.
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Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.
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Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.
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The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.