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
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.
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I was never a child who was sitting on his lap.
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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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Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?
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Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron
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One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic
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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
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[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.
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When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope
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No revolution can be made with silk gloves.
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There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
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What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.
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The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.