It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
JOSEPH STALINIf the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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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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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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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.
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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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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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You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.
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The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
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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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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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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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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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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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