Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalinwas the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Holding the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state...
NationalityGeorgian
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth21 December 1879
CountryGeorgia
fall mean progress
To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten...
mean division fundamentals
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
dream mean people
In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.
mean
There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt.
food human invincible quality resistant
I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.
child sitting
I was never a child who was sitting on his lap.
begins death defend foreign government minister orders placed sure
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.
allow enemies far ideas powerful
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?
consequences diplomacy dry iron possible sincere water
Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron
death deaths million statistic
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic
current estimates front importance might occupy second soviet
What place does the possibility of a second front occupy in the Soviet estimates of the current situation? A most important place; one might say a place a first-rate importance
dog people faithful
[The Albanians] seem to be rather backward and primitive people... they can be as faithful as a dog; that is one of the traits of the primitive. Our Chuvash were the same. The Russian tsars always used them for their bodyguards.
hang rope sell
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope
gloves revolution made
No revolution can be made with silk gloves.