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 United States should get rid of its militias.
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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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History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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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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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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Die, but do not retreat.
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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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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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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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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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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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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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