Joseph Stalin
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To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.
— Joseph Stalin (c. 1940) Stalin's Kampf: Joseph Stalin's credo
Joseph Stalin
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
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Lived 1878–1953, aged 75
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He led the Soviet Union for nearly three decades, transformed it into an industrial superpower and defeated Nazi Germany — while presiding over terror, purges, forced labor camps, and famines that killed millions of his own citizens.
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Born to a poor Georgian family in Gori in 1878, Stalin attended seminary before joining the Marxist underground, financing Lenin's Bolsheviks through bank robberies and enduring repeated arrests and Siberian exile. After the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, he used his role as General Secretary from 1922 to control the party bureaucracy, then won the leadership struggle after Lenin's death in 1924, sidelining rivals like Trotsky. His five-year plans beginning in 1928 forced agricultural collectivization and rapid industrialization, contributing to the 1932–1933 famine that killed millions, inc…
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Joseph Stalin
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It is impossible to finish off capitalism without having finished off social democracy in the working-class movement.
— Voprosi Leninizma, Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo politicheskoy literaturi, (1939)
Joseph Stalin
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The State is a machine in the hands of the governing class for suppressing the resistance of its class antagonists.
— Voprosi Leninizma, Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo politicheskoy literaturi, (1939)
Joseph Stalin
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It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.
— Interview Between J. Stalin and Roy Howard; March 1, 1936
Joseph Stalin
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In my opinion there are two seats of war danger. The first is in the Far East, in the zone of Japan.
— Interview Between J. Stalin and Roy Howard; March 1, 1936
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