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Mikhail Kalinin Quotes

1875–1946 Russia

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (November 19 [O.S. November 7] 1875 – June 3, 1946) was an Old Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician.

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Also known as: Kalinin, Mikhail

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The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.

The contingencies of the moment may justify the omission of certain conveniences in the building of temporary accommodations.

You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which like a millstone grinds up all nationalities and forges a new nationality. This nationality is the universal proletariat.

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