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Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia. -- Vladimir Putin
Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind. -- Robert Harris
Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin. -- Vladimir Putin
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. -- Edgar Bergen
The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder. -- Octavian Paler
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied. -- Nikita Khrushchev
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain. -- Tony Benn
I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych. -- Brian Cox
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held. -- W. Averell Harriman
Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin. -- Madeleine Albright
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin. -- Harold Bloom
The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler. -- Mario Batali
There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters. -- Simon Wiesenthal
Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement. -- W. Averell Harriman
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. -- Harry S. Truman
All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's. -- Conrad Black
In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction. -- Tom Paulin
We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender. -- W. Averell Harriman
No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians. -- Jim Caviezel
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch. -- A. N. Wilson
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers? -- John Amery
The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle. -- Antony Beevor
Stalin's methods did not help. -- Anastas Mikoyan
I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten. -- Ezra Pound
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character. -- Leon Trotsky
I rather liked Stalin and Molotov, got along fine with them. -- Joachim von Ribbentrop
I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him. -- Filipp Golikov
I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell. -- Harry S. Truman
Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin. -- Casey Stengel
Darwinism has laid the groundwork for Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism and Stalin's communism. -- Harun Yahya
Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If Stalin ever told me to urinate, I'm not sure I'd be able to.... -- Phil Donahue
It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin -- H. G. Wells
Historians write favorably, you know, for example, about Stalin because he was doing big things. -- Jonah Goldberg
Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs. -- Victor Davis Hanson
There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were. -- Ludwig von Mises
Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. -- Peter Drucker
[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin. -- Joseph Goebbels
If Hitler hadn't turned against their beloved Stalin, liberals would have stuck by him, too. -- Ann Coulter
Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions. -- George Will
Stalin didn't write any memoirs. He was too secretive. He was afraid people might read them. -- Jonathan Lynn
Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either. -- Michael Bloomberg
If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III, -- Martin Bashir
If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave. -- Anastas Mikoyan
Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century. -- Palmiro Togliatti
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta. -- W. Averell Harriman
Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain. -- Christian Wiman
Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist. -- Winston Churchill
Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged. -- Howard Gardner
Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar. -- Doris Lessing
A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida. -- James Mattis
Stalin's postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order. -- John Lewis Gaddis
[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution. -- Leon Trotsky
Generalissimo Stalin directed every move... made every decision... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived... -- Georgy Zhukov
The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean. -- Vince Cable
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human. -- John Derbyshire
I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed. -- Grover Furr
Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned. -- Emmett Tyrrell
If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin. -- T. S. Eliot
Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology. -- Simon Sebag-Montefiore
We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. -- Mao Zedong
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes. -- Albert Camus
So Fox News is the voice of America and Obama is Stalin? Oh my God! I guess that makes me Yakov Smirnoff. -- Jon Stewart
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph. -- Philip K. Dick
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
Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric. -- Noam Chomsky
Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan. -- Jo Brand
Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality. -- Steve Sailer
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
In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement. -- Niall Ferguson
Under Hitler or Stalin a GÃ³ral [Tatra-highlander] could choose to produce oscypek [smoked cheese] however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him. -- Janusz Korwin-Mikke
I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists]. -- John Lennox
I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I wonâ??t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated. -- Che Guevara
Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic. -- Natan Sharansky
Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it. -- Antonin Kratochvil
I can only express satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Gaddafi , Bin Laden, Hitler , and Stalin in a warm corner of hell. -- John McCain
The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union. -- Terry Eagleton
I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo. -- Harry S. Truman
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time. -- Douglas Hurd
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I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the abolition of tyranny and intolerance! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Today anyone on the Internet can find out more about what you read, think, and earn than the secret police of Stalin or Hitler could have learned. -- Robert Scheer
[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that. -- Kent Hovind
I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world. -- W. Averell Harriman
[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." -- Leon Trotsky
For a time I gave the appearance of defending Stalin. I didn't defend what he had done; the fact is, nobody could defend the things that Khrushchev revealed. -- Tim Buck
Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office. -- Jimmy Carter
In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader. -- Serge Schmemann
Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity. -- Martha Gellhorn
In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names. -- Kim Jong Il
Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods. -- Steve Allen
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them. -- Ravi Zacharias
Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution. -- Vladimir Lenin
Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society. -- Leon Trotsky
Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West. -- Edward Abbey
There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty under-draws, who stand at attention and salute them. -- Nikita Khrushchev
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220) -- Steven Pinker
What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure. -- Leonard Read
It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century -- Lawrence Summers
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It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century -- Lawrence Summers
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. -- Mikhail Kalinin
He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell. -- Hugh Howey
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. -- Harry S. Truman
We liberate our nation's heart inside of Indonesian independence!! Ibn Saud liberated Arabian's heart inside of Saudi Arabian independence one by one!! Stalin liberated Soviet-Russian's heart inside of Soviet one by one!! -- Sukarno
Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer. -- Anthony Eden
More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of the history of Russia in Stalin's time and of her relations with the West. -- Robert C. Tucker
I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin? -- Ann Coulter
One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this world. -- Bernard Brodie
There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence. -- Mark Shields
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
I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them. -- Ray Bradbury
In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism . . . [Stalin] proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. . . . Stalin's works should, as before, be seriously studied . . . [to] see what is correct and what is not. -- Mao Zedong
I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else. -- Nathalie Sarraute
It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands... -- Charlton Heston

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