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First, Stalin is disowned, now, little by little, it gets to prosecute socialism, the October Revolution, and in no time they will also want to prosecute Lenin and Marx.

— Lazar Kaganovich

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Without Stalin's politics, we would never have achieved anything, we would all have died.

Iosif Vissarionovich was a really cautious man. Really cautious. A man who could see far.

Every time they say that what's happening in the country is... Stalin's fault. It's the moral of every speech: Stalin's guilty, it was Stalin, Stalin, Stalin, everyone against him. But Stalin died 35 years ago! 35 years! What does that have to do with today's troubles?

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