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We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

Joseph Stalin

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
JOSEPH STALIN

Determination Education Hands Reality Weapon
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
The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
JOSEPH STALIN

Growth Party Politics Powerful Weapon
Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
JOSEPH STALIN

Simplicity Start War
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army Courage Surrender
Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALIN

Citizenship Human Live Treasure
Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
JOSEPH STALIN

Abuse People Priviledge Right Stupidity
We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
JOSEPH STALIN

Believe Country Necessary Possible Revolution Time
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Human Important Material Soul Worth Writing
Quantity has a quality all its own.
JOSEPH STALIN

Deep One Liner Quality
We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
JOSEPH STALIN

Give Up Ourselves Surrender
The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
JOSEPH STALIN

Death Deep Man Oneself Tragedy
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army One Liner Reality War
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
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army Himself Reach
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

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