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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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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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.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
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Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.
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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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Die, but do not retreat.
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
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Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.