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.
JOSEPH STALINNowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Die, but do not retreat.
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Words are one thing – deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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The Jews are not a nation!
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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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 believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks. And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.
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Artillery is the god of war.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
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