He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
JOSEPH STALINIn war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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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.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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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.
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The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
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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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Artillery is the god of war.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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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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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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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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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.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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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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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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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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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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