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In the Soviet Army, it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

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[The Albanians] seem to be rather backward and primitive people... they can be as faithful as a dog; that is one of the traits of the primitive. Our Chuvash were the same. The Russian tsars always used them for their bodyguards.

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The confidence of the people in the worker-directors of the economy is a great thing, Comrades. The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal, everything else is ephemeral. That is why it is necessary to appreciate the full value of the confidence of the people.

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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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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

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Born: December 18, 1878

Died: March 5, 1953 (aged 74)

Bio: Joseph Stalin was 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.

Known for:

The October revolution (1934)
The Foundations of Leninism (1924)
The Road to Power (1937)
Marxism & the National Colonial Question (1934)
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1951)

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