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The people who cast the votes decide nothing the people who count the votes decide everything.

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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
Count
Cast
Casts
Decide
Vote
Everything
Nothing
Votes
People
Voters

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To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.
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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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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
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Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.
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Quanity has it's own quality.
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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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Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?
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Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
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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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The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.
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