Quotes About Stalin

In 1937, Stalin ordered the executions of 680,000 people judged politically unreliable, including military officers, party officials, and members of the politburo—an incredible number.

Despite having built his own movement with little help from Moscow, the new Chinese leader was a dedicated Marxist-Leninist who was more than ready to defer to Stalin as the head of the international communist movement. The new China, he announced in June, 1949, must ally "with the Soviet Union, . . . and with the proletariat and broad masses of the people in all other countries, and form an international united front. . . . We must lean to one side."53

With the precedents of Soviet unilateralism in Europe all too clearly in mind, there was no desire within the new Truman administration to see something similar repeated in Northeast Asia. Here, then, the Americans embraced Stalin's own equation of blood with influence. They had done most of the fighting in the Pacific War. They alone, therefore, would occupy the nation that had started it.

Rare is the Stalin-like individual, who lacks empathy and who seems to take pleasure in inflicting pain or watching pain inflicted to others; common is the -virtuous citizen acting in the name of righteous causes-.

the New York Times, one of the most influential newspapers in the United States, was a propaganda sheet for Stalin's early regime and helped cover up the genocide and atrocities against the Ukrainians.17

Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them.

I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.

Stalin's postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.

This split the scientific community up into factions and promoted conflict. This was Stalin's objective. It permitted him to intervene and take sides whenever deemed necessary

the 'creation of the idea of the perpetual enemy' was indispensable for Stalin.

Rome had been under the rule of a mad sadist somewhere between a clinical psychopath and a Stalin.

Here was an American president adopting the language used by Adolf Hitler (the Nazis referred to the Lügenpresse, or "lying press") and Josef Stalin, who called the press "vrag naroda" (enemy of the people).

To this day, mass graves of Stalin's victims continue to be uncovered in eastern Poland. As

Compulsion was a key element in Leningrad's survival, as in that of Stalin's nation. If the city's inhabitants had been offered an exchange of surrender for food in February 1942, they assuredly would have given

Stalin's policies had driven millions more to starvation and even cannibalism.

Stalin would ultimately prove the most successful warlord of the conflict, yet no more than Hitler

The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the blood price for destroying the tyranny of Hitler. Only simpletons of the political Right and Left dare to suggest that in Vietnam either side possessed a monopoly of virtue.

Josef Stalin once said that 'Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.' Let us correct this: Ingratitude is a horrible disease belongs to the callous rocks! A grateful dog is a being much more developed than an ungrateful man!

The fact is that the Communists are the forerunners of fascism," she wrote in 1933. "Neither Mussolini nor Hitler have made a single original step. All they had to do is follow and copy faithfully the steps taken by Lenin and Stalin.

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty underdrawers, who stand at attention and salute them.