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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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Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.
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To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.
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Great Britain provided time the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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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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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.
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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
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A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.
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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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We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.
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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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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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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach.
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We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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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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