Joseph Stalin Quotes

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In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

Joseph Stalin
Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

Joseph Stalin
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?

Joseph Stalin
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.

Joseph Stalin
It is difficult for me to imagine what personal liberty is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

Joseph Stalin
As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia.

Joseph Stalin
Before your eyes rises the hero of Gogol's story who, in a fit of aberration, imagined that he was the King of Spain. Such is the fate of all megalomaniacs.

Joseph Stalin
God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist.

Joseph Stalin
If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Joseph Stalin
There is the question: Can Socialism possibly be established in one country alone by that country's unaided strength? The question must be answered in the affirmative.

Joseph Stalin
The State is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class, used to break the resistance of the adversaries of that class.

Joseph Stalin
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.

Joseph Stalin
The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

Joseph Stalin
The existing pseudo-government which was not elected by the people and which is not accountable to the people must be replaced by a government recognised by the people, elected by representatives of the workers, soldiers and peasants and held accountable to their representatives.

Joseph Stalin
You [Albanians] are a separate people, just like the Persians and the Arabs, who have the same religion as the Turks. Your ancestors existed before the Romans and the Turks. Religion has nothing to do with nationality and statehood… the question of religious beliefs must be kept well in mind, must be handled with great care, because the religious feelings of the people must not be offended. These feelings have been cultivated in the people for many centuries, and great patience is called for on this question, because the stand towards it is important for the compactness and unity of the people.

Joseph Stalin
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.

Joseph Stalin
There are various forms of production: artillery, automobiles, lorries. You also produce 'commodities', 'works', 'products'. Such things are highly necessary. Engineering things. For people's souls. 'Products' are highly necessary too. 'Products' are very important for people's souls. You are engineers of human souls.

Joseph Stalin
Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.

Joseph Stalin
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Joseph Stalin
Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.

Joseph Stalin
This leads to the conclusion, it is time to finish retreating. Not one step back! Such should now be our main slogan. … Henceforth the solid law of discipline for each commander, Red Army soldier, and commissar should be the requirement — not a single step back without order from higher command.

Joseph Stalin
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

Joseph Stalin
We must finally understand that of all the precious capital in the world, the most precious capital, the most decisive capital, is human beings. Cadres are the key to everything!

Joseph Stalin
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Joseph Stalin
Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous.

Joseph Stalin
He who wants to lead a movement, and at the same time keep in touch with the masses, must wage a war on two fronts – against those who lag behind and against those who rush on ahead.

Joseph Stalin
Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

Joseph Stalin
There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

Joseph Stalin
So the bastard's dead? Too bad we didn't capture him alive!

Joseph Stalin
You have let down our country and our Red Army. You have the nerve not to manufacture IL-2s until now. Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. Shenkman produces one IL-2 a day and Tretyakov builds one or two MiG-3s daily. It is a mockery of our country and the Red Army. I ask you not to try the government's patience, and demand that you manufacture more ILs. This is my final warning.

Joseph Stalin