It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
JOSEPH STALINQuantity has a quality all its own.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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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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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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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.
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When you chop wood, splinters fly.
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There 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.
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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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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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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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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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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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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
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