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When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.

Joseph Stalin

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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Difference Goal Person Politics
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Battle Beginning Death Government Peace Place
Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
JOSEPH STALIN

Politics Power Vote
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
JOSEPH STALIN

Death History Mercy Myself
Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
JOSEPH STALIN

Break Desire Remember Result War World
Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
JOSEPH STALIN

Appearance Human Recovery
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!
JOSEPH STALIN

Anger Army War Weapon
Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
JOSEPH STALIN

People Value Wealth
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
JOSEPH STALIN

Enemy Ideas Knowledge Ourselves Powerful Weapon
To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed… There is nothing sweeter in the world.
JOSEPH STALIN

Bed Choice Preparation Victim World
The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
JOSEPH STALIN

Death Deep Man Oneself Tragedy
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army Courage Surrender
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Fundamental Man Oneself Poor Rich
It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
JOSEPH STALIN

Hero History
American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.
JOSEPH STALIN

Government Ideas Opportunity Responsible
The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
JOSEPH STALIN

Immortal Leadership People

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