Uncle Joe was an ally of convenience during the Second World War,
paranoid and an enthusiastic mass murderer. His quotations match his
actions.:-
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is [ sic ] a statistic
Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
Joseph Stalin
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin
Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
Joseph Stalin
Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
Joseph Stalin
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
Joseph Stalin
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
Joseph Stalin
I trust no one, not even myself.
Joseph Stalin
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?
Joseph Stalin
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph Stalin
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph Stalin
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin
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.
Joseph Stalin
One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
Joseph Stalin
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin
The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Joseph Stalin
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
Joseph Stalin
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph StalinWhen we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
Joseph Stalin
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
Joseph StalinStalin, known then as ‘Soso’ or ‘Koba’, replied, ‘My greatest pleasure is to choose one’s victim, prepare one’s plans minutely, slake an implacable vengeance, and then go to bed. There’s nothing sweeter in the world.’
Young Stalin, by Simon Sebag Montefiore - allegedly in conversation with Lev Kamenev & Felix Dzerzhinsky - see Archangel, page 37 by Robert Harris