Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.
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The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.
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Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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Writers are the engineers of human souls.
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One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.
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History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.
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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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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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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.
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It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.
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The Jews are not a nation!
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Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.
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We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.
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A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past.
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I don't know what specific frontiers Germany could adopt for her purposes, but I think that those willing "to lend" a frontier to her can be found.