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1879–1953
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 21 December {9 December Old Style} 1879 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953).
Also known as: Josef Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, Joseph stalin, Stalin, Stalin, Joseph
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It is impossible to finish off capitalism without having finished off social democracy in the working-class movement.
We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences — "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.
It is not who has a larger or smaller "mass" following today, but the essence of the doctrine that matters.
Anarchism or Socialism (1906)
Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism.
It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.
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.
Does Djilas, who is himself a writer, not know what human suffering and the human heart are? Can't he understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a wench or takes some trifle?
Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
So the bastard's dead? Too bad we didn't capture him alive!
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
The Communists base themselves on rich historical experience which teaches that obsolete classes do not voluntarily abandon the stage of history.
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.
Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.... These organisations (i.e. Fascism and social democracy) are not antipodes, they are twins.
This is a great mistake. We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.
Anarchism or Socialism (1906)
Ours is a just cause; victory will be ours!
Marxism is not only the theory of Socialism, but also an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.
Works (1952)
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division, and from the antagonism between poor and rich, means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.
Joseph Stalin (1940)
Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous.
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