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.
JOSEPH STALINThere are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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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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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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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.
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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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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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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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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.
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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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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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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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Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
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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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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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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.
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