When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
JOSEPH STALINWhen you chop wood, splinters fly.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Die, but do not retreat.
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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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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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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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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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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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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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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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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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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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