Soviet politician (1875–1946)
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He was the Soviet Union's ceremonial president for 27 years—a peasant-born metalworker who signed decrees and greeted foreign dignitaries while Stalin held the real power. His name outlived him on a conquered German city that still bears it today.
Born to a peasant family in 1875, Kalinin worked the metal shops of Saint Petersburg and joined the Bolsheviks early enough to fight in the failed 1905 revolution. After the October Revolution succeeded in 1917, he became mayor of Petrograd, then rose to head the new Soviet state in 1919—Chairman of the Central Executive Committee, a position he held until 1946. He joined the Politburo in 1926 and stayed there, a fixture in the inner circle, but Stalin's rise left him with titles and no leverage. He retired in 1946 and died the same year. Königsberg, freshly seized from Germany, was renamed Ka…
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But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in the world.
You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.
The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.
The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.
These [traits] are first: love, love for his people, love for the working masses...Second, honesty...Third, courage...Fourth, comradely solidarity...Fifth, love for labor.
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