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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.

Joseph Stalin

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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
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Human
Personalities
Humans
Personality
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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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I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.
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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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The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!
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We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.
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I believe that the position of the friends of peace is strengthening. The friends of peace are able to work in the open. They base themselves upon the force of public opinion. They have at their disposal such instruments as, for instance, the League of Nations. This is to the advantage of the friends of peace.
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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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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage.
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This war is not as in the past whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.
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Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!
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Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.
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He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
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[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it borrows a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.
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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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To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.
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Quanity has it's own quality.
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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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Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.
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