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

Joseph Stalin

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Joseph Stalin
Age: 74 †
Born: 1878
Born: December 18
Died: 1953
Died: March 5
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Former Premier Of The Soviet Union
Politician
Revolutionary
Ioseb Besarionis dze Dzhugashvili
Stalin
Josef Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin
Koba
Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Joey Stalin
Uncle Joe
Yosif Dzhugashvili
History
Makes
Make
Heroes
Hero

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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.
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Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.
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I believe that the position of the friends of peace is strengthening. The friends of peace are able to work in the open. They base themselves upon the force of public opinion. They have at their disposal such instruments as, for instance, the League of Nations. This is to the advantage of the friends of peace.
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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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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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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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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.
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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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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.
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Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?
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We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.
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