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 STALINAh, 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 STALINNobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.
JOSEPH STALINWhen we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
JOSEPH STALINOf all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALINIt takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
JOSEPH STALINThere 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 STALINA man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
JOSEPH STALINDie, but do not retreat.
JOSEPH STALINYou know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
JOSEPH STALINMusic’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
JOSEPH STALINThe death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
JOSEPH STALINWhen there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
JOSEPH STALINThe Jews are not a nation!
JOSEPH STALINTo 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.
JOSEPH STALINI trust no one, not even myself.
JOSEPH STALINWe do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
JOSEPH STALIN