Joseph Stalin Quotes
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To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.
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I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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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 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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Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
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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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Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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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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What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.
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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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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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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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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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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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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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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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Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.
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Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.
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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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Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?