Josef Stalin Quotes

• The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Country, Years, Mugabe

  "While we have your attention, Mr President". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2003.

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• While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and Josef Stalin's pogroms against racial minorities and political dissidents in the Soviet Union, the facts that the U.S. Army's solution to the 'Indian Problem' was the prototype for the Nazi 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Problem' and that the North American Indian Reservation was the model for the twentieth century gulag and concentration camp, are conveniently overlooked.

  Jonathan Ott

  Stress, School, Army

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• 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!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dog, Gratitude, Grateful

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• When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

  Joseph Stalin

  Problem, No Problem, Persons

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• Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

  A. J. Liebling

  Men, Lasts, Taste

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan

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• We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'

  Rich Lowry

  Lying, Believe, President

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• The Soviet Union at this time was being run by the Communists, a group of men fierce in their dedication to wearing hilariously bad suits. Their leader was Josef Stalin (Russian for "Joey Bananas")

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Running, Humorous

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”

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• I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Believe, People

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