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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.

Joseph Stalin

The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
JOSEPH STALIN

Growth Party Politics Powerful Weapon
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Bed Choice Preparation Victim World
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!
JOSEPH STALIN

Anger Army War Weapon
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Believe Country Necessary Possible Revolution Time
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Existence Home Job Liberty Lose Oppression People Person Reality
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Battle Beginning Death Government Peace Place
Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
JOSEPH STALIN

Citizenship Human Live Treasure
Music’s a good thing, it calms the beast in the man.
JOSEPH STALIN

Goodness Men Music One Liner Peace
Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
JOSEPH STALIN

Myself Remember Yourself
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Human Important Material Soul Worth Writing
He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
JOSEPH STALIN

Himself Power Vote
Quantity has a quality all its own.
JOSEPH STALIN

Deep One Liner Quality
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
JOSEPH STALIN

Army Courage Surrender
Quanity has it’s own quality.
JOSEPH STALIN

One Liner Quality Quantity
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.
JOSEPH STALIN

Difference Goal Person Politics
When you chop wood, splinters fly.
JOSEPH STALIN

Fly Tree Yourself

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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