Joseph Stalin Quotes
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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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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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.
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There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage.
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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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Music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.
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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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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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American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.
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Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.
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This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism.
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Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.
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Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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In what do the activities of the Communist Parties consist? In what ways can they manifest themselves? These activities usually consist in the organization of working masses, in organizing meetings, demonstrations, strikes, etc. It is absolutely clear that American Communists cannot perform this in Soviet territory. The American workers are not in the U.S.S.R.
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Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ have to satisfy one or another of the many-sided and ever increasing demands of the working population of town and countryside.
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Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
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We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.
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I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.
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In my opinion, there are two focal points of the war danger. The first focal point is the Far East zone of Japan. The second focal point in the zone is Germany.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.