Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalinwas the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Holding the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state...
NationalityGeorgian
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth21 December 1879
CountryGeorgia
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Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron
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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 airplanes.
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I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.
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One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic
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Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?
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The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
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[The Albanians] seem to be rather backward and primitive people... they can be as faithful as a dog; that is one of the traits of the primitive. Our Chuvash were the same. The Russian tsars always used them for their bodyguards.
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Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
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The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
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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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It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.
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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.