I trust no one, not even myself.
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Joseph Stalin
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About Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and the nation's Premier from 1941 to 1953. Initially presiding over an oligarchic one-party system that governed by plurality, he became the de facto dictator of the Soviet Union by the 1930s. Ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin hel…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Joseph StalinThe only real power comes out of a long rifle.
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.