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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.

Joseph Stalin

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

Country Development Distance Goodness
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
Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
JOSEPH STALIN

Simplicity Start War
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
JOSEPH STALIN

Business Death
Quantity has a quality all its own.
JOSEPH STALIN

Deep One Liner Quality
How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
JOSEPH STALIN

Dare Expectation Home Revolution Travel Walk
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
The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army Government Reason War
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
JOSEPH STALIN

Death Feeling Heart Herself Humanity
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
JOSEPH STALIN

Power Reality War Weapon
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Country Material Ourselves Plant Wealth
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
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
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
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army One Liner Reality War
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army Courage Surrender

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