Joseph Stalin Quotes
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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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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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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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
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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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The Jews are not a nation!
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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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Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.
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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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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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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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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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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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There is no doubt that the absence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German Army, nor can there be any doubt that the appearance of a second front on the Continent of Europe - and undoubtedly this will appear in the near future - will essentially relieve the position of our armies to the detriment of the German Army.
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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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 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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Music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.