It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
JOSEPH STALINThe 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.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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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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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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Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.
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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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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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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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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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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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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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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