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

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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
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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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Under national socialism, there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.
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It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.
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We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.
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In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
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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 difficult for me to imagine what personal liberty the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.
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Political power does not rest with those who cast votes political power rests with those who count votes.
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Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.
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The United States should get rid of its militias.
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In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.
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There is no nation in the whole world desiring war.
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We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.
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- Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.
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Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.
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American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.
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The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.
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In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.
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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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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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