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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
Statistics
Thousands
Tragedy
Dies
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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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We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other.
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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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Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.
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To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.
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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 have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.
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I trust no one, not even myself.
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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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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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Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.
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I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.
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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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The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.
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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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Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.
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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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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.
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