In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“Hitler and Stalin, are too big to let each other live in the same world.” — Time Inc Copy Share Image
Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. - J. V. Stalin, 1918 ” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Besides Getting my ass kicked, my main accomplishment on this trip has been to massacre an incredible number of completely innocent clothes.… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to communicate with the dead. I just spoke to Stalin, and he’s very pleased with the way… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Hitler and Stalin both accepted a late-nineteenth-century Darwinistic modification: progress was possible, but only as a result of violent struggle between races… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin,… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Daddy used to be a Georgian,' Stalin's son, Vasily, once said. Actually, the dictator didn't truly become Russian; he remained Georgian culturally.… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“What Hitler and Stalin had in common was the same aspiration that animated the first inquisitors - the simple but deadly notion… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
I consider him Stalin one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in… — Alexander Zinoviev Copy Share Image
“This absolute lack of objectivity might be said to resemble nothing so much as the lack of objectivity these same people had… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. His father was a hard-drinking… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
“Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“You are not that kind of man Pekkala. You are not the monster that your enemies once believed you to be. If… — Sam Eastland Copy Share Image
I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the… — James Mace Copy Share Image
“For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Stalin's mental journey, by 1943, proceeded in the opposite direction to that of Hitler. One moved toward reality; the other moved away… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Whenever Stalin made a speech his audience would applaud so much that no one dared be the first to stop, applauding even… — Rupert Colley Copy Share Image
“Stalin perceived the world in stark black and white. In the same way, he divided people, nations, actions, and ideas into only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century. — Palmiro Togliatti Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image