Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.
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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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Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.
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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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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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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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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 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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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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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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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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The Jews are not a nation!
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.
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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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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!
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It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.
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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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It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.