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Vyacheslav Molotov Quotes

1890–1986 Russia

Russia
Communists

Also known as: Molotov, Molotov, Vyacheslav

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The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

Remark at the Berlin Conference (1954)

There is no alternative to class struggle.

The Fifty-Year War : Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War (2007)

This is not the first time that our people have had to deal with an attack of an arrogant foe.

Our entire people must now stand solid and united as never before.

Stalin will be rehabilitated, needless to say.

Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (1993)

One blow from the German army and another from the Soviet army put an end to this ugly product of Versailles.

The enemy shall be defeated. Victory will be ours.

Life has improved, and now as never before the doors to a happy and cultured life for all the peoples of our Union stand wide open.

The Soviet Government deems it its sacred duty to extend the hand of assistance to its brother Ukrainians and White Russians inhabiting Poland.

We cannot lose Poland. If this line is crossed, they will grab us, too.

In capitalist countries the bourgeoisie leads. So long as imperialism and socialism are locked in struggle with each other, it's either a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie or a dictatorship of the working class.

Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (1993)

I do not believe that everything we did under Stalin was right. But the main thing we achieved gives us justifiable pride. Had we been conquered, we would have had to wait a long time for liberation.

Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (1993)

Only a fool would attack us.

Infallible people do not exist, Lenin used to say. It depends, first, on the kind of error and, second, how long it persisted. And whether there was willingness to pursue the line considered correct. If there was such willingness, certain errors had to be passed over."

Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (1993)

[W]e've done so much that even if we are smashed, everything will have been worth it. If not today, then tomorrow.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vyacheslav Molotov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.