In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
JOSEPH STALINOur 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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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
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Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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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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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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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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Artillery is the god of war.
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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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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Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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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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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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Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.
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