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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Joseph Stalin

We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
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Believe Country Necessary Possible Revolution Time
Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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Decision Politics Vote
Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
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Goodness Men Music One Liner Peace
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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Greatness Money Time War
In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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Confidence Devil Myself War
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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Character Feature Government
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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Country Development Distance Goodness
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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Battle Beginning Death Government Peace Place
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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Difference Goal Person Politics
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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Bed Choice Preparation Victim World
It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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Hero History
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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Army Courage Surrender
How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?
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Dare Expectation Home Revolution Travel Walk
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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Human Important Material Soul Worth Writing
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
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Army One Liner Reality War
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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Death History Mercy Myself

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

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