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.
JOSEPH STALINThe press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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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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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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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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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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Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
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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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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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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
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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 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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Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army.
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