Quotes about Stalin

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The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers — Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Stalin goes to visit one of the collectives outside of Moscow,” began Kolya in his joke-telling voice. “Wants to see how — David Benioff, City of Thieves
The peasant rebellion against collectivization was the most serious episode in popular resistance experienced by the Sov — Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.'No, I didn’t. Communism ditched me by turning into Stalinism'. — Arthur Koestler
(on visiting the USSR after Stalin regime installed)All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of y — Panait Istrati
Perhaps the breaking of the human spirit into submissive, thoughtless robots is the most terrible feature of Stalin’s Ru — Freda Utley, Lost Illusion
In insisting that peasant activity contrary to Communist policies could be defined as kulak while at the same time maint — Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
Pope Pius XI called for a world-wide day of prayer, to be held on 16 March 1930, on behalf of the persecuted believers i — Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
Lenin and Stalin created the idiosyncratic Soviet system in the image of their ruthless little circle of conspirators be — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin
Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes mount, because i — Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can mak — George Orwell, As I Please: 1943-1945
At one time, we all were Gods. — Bjorn Street
Stalin’s teachings about gradual, concealed, unnoticeable quantitative changes leading to rapid, radical, qualitative ch — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous c — Max Hastings, Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
Do either of you even play baseball? — Jeff Davis