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 STALINIt is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Die, but do not retreat.
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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.
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The Jews are not a nation!
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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A man’s eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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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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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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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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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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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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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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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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Artillery is the god of war.
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The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
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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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Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.
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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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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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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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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.
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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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