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 STALINWe 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.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
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We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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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.
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When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
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Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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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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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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