How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
JOSEPH STALINNobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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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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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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Personel selection is decisive. People are our most valuable capital.
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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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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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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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.
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The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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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 not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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