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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
Hero
History
Makes
Make
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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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A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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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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There is no nation in the whole world desiring war.
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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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The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.
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Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.
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Of course, in order to build something new, one has to economize, accumulate means, temporarily limit one's requirements, borrow from others. If you want to build a new house, you save money temporarily and limit your requirements, otherwise you might not build your house.
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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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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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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.
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[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.
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Great Britain provided time the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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