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We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - true conformity is possible only in the cemetery.

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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
Powerful
True
Cemetery
Vigorous
Without
Conformity
Think
Movement
Thinking
Differences
Impossible
Possible

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As soon as there are no more classes, as soon as boundaries between classes are effaced, as soon as only a few but non-fundamental differences between various strata of the socialist society remain - there can no longer be nourishing ground for the formation of parties struggling among themselves.
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Artillery is the god of war.
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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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The term state socialism is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth, sometimes a quite considerable part, passes into state ownership or under its control while in the great majority of cases the ownership of plants, factories, and land, remains in private hands.
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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.
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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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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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Quantity has a quality all its own.
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To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.
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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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What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.
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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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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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There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.
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There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.
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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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We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.
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Why will our elections be equal? Because neither differences in regard to property (differences partly existing) nor differences of race and nationality will cause any privileges or disadvantages. Women will enjoy the right to elect and be elected equally with men. Our elections will be really equal.
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