Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalinwas the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Holding the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state...
NationalityGeorgian
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth21 December 1879
CountryGeorgia
hang rope sell
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope
current estimates front importance might occupy second soviet
What place does the possibility of a second front occupy in the Soviet estimates of the current situation? A most important place; one might say a place a first-rate importance
voters vote
It is not the voters who count, but those who count the votes.
army men brave
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
matter vote
It doesn't matter who they vote for, they always vote for us...
treasure citizens human-life
Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
resources advantage knows
There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.
couple writing thinking
Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.
war past world
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.
powerful thinking differences
We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.
gloves revolution made
No revolution can be made with silk gloves.
leadership art fighting
The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.