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Joseph Stalin
Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин (Iósif Vissariónovich Stálin; Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin) (21 December [9 December Old Style], 1879 – 5 March 1953) Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953; born Иосиф Джугашвили (Iósif Dzhugashvíli; Ioseb Jughashvili)
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- Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
- "Anti-Semitism: Reply to an Inquiry of the Jewish News Agency in the United States" (12 January 1931)
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- A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
- A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
- Variants: One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.
- Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
- Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
- Everyone imposes his own system as far as his armies can reach.
- Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
- Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
- History has shown that there are no invincible armies.
- Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
- 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 aeroplanes.
- If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
- In the Soviet Army, it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
- It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
- 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.
- Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
- So the bastard's dead! Too bad we didn't capture him alive!
- The Pope? How many [military] divisions has he got? [said jokingly]
- The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
- When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope.
- We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or we shall go under.
- 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.
- You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
- Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.
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