Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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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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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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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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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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In case Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian People's Republic, seeking to destroy its independence, we will have to assist the Mongolian People's Republic.
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Artillery is the god of war.
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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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Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
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We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.
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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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If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against the right of asylum promulgated in both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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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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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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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.
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Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
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I believe that the position of the friends of peace is strengthening. The friends of peace are able to work in the open. They base themselves upon the force of public opinion. They have at their disposal such instruments as, for instance, the League of Nations. This is to the advantage of the friends of peace.
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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.