36 Stalin Quotes for You to Enjoy

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. Harry S Truman

History Police Marine Corps Will Long President Corps Machine Propaganda Remain Almost Police Force Equal Force Am Stalin Navy Marine

The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin's U.S.S.R. and Mao's China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias. Steven Weinberg

Socialism Gave Nineteenth Ghastly Everywhere Failed Idea Most Influential Banner Which China Centuries Stalin Us Mao Twentieth Utopian

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia. Vladimir Putin

Russia Most Stalin Figure Popular

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch. A. N. Wilson

All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's. Conrad Black

Other Jewish State President State Members Admitted Outset Motion Israel Were Truman Ambassador Subsequently Stalin Created Jewish

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. Guillermo Cabrera Infante

God Communism Mother Father Beginning Rampant Earth Had Most Period She Educated Been Gods Heaven Convent Converted Stalin Two

No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians. Jim Caviezel

Death People Christ Judgment Before Crimes Mussolini Entire Russians Scene Condemn Italians Than Anymore Race Stalin Standing Actions

Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. His father was a hard-drinking cobbler whose relationship with Joseph's mother, Keke Geladze, came to an end when the boy was around six years old. Keith Gessen

Relationship Mother Old Father Born Russian Joseph Empire Periphery Around Boy Came His Years Georgia End Six Stalin Whose

After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso. Keith Gessen

I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater. Lenny Abrahamson

Love Best Cinema Everyone TV Would Some About Had Force Were Experiences Theater Stalin Fascist Things Watching

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence. Mark Shields

Made Immediately Broke Eastern Eastern Europe About No Question Poland Supposed Were Question Stalin Held Elections Europe Agreements Slavery Consequence

Nowadays, it is no longer possible to maintain that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939 was a fiction invented by bourgeois-imperialist enemies. Everyone has seen the film clips of Herr Ribbentrop landing in Moscow, and of Stalin smiling broadly as Ribbentrop and Molotov signed up side by side. Norman Davies

Enemies Seen Nowadays Side Everyone Signed Possible Invented Maintain Longer Moscow Smiling August Up Fiction Stalin Pact Landing Film

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder. Octavian Paler

Fight Down Ghosts Statues Seems Against Lenin Stalin Harder

Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind. Robert Harris

Wind Dust Unlike Blowing Forgotten Stalin Holocaust

Nicholas I has been called 'Genghis Khan with a telegraph.' Stalin was 'Genghis Khan with a telephone.' But Mr. Putin is not Genghis Khan with a BlackBerry. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Khan Telegraph Telephone Has-Been Blackberry Putin Been Stalin

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hoped Write Were Survive Artists To Survive Stalin

'Daddy used to be a Georgian,' Stalin's son, Vasily, once said. Actually, the dictator didn't truly become Russian; he remained Georgian culturally. Yet he embraced the imperial mission of the Russian people. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Son People Become Once Embraced Russian Russian People Remained Imperial He Mission Said Truly Georgian Dictator Stalin Used Daddy Actually

Regarding themselves as irreplaceable, both Lenin and Stalin tried in different ways to destroy their successors - Lenin through a testament that attacked Stalin and Trotsky, Stalin through purges culminating in the Doctors' Plot of 1953. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Doctors Ways Destroy Plot Tried Both Attacked Through Testament Irreplaceable Different Regarding Lenin Stalin Themselves Different Ways

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