Stalin Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

10 Stalin quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Simon Sebag Montefiore’s ten short notes on Stalin cut to the core of the leader’s complex legacy. He offers a succinct, fact‑grounded view that helps readers grasp the weight of his impact without excess detail.

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When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing.

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In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor.

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Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.

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Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

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'Daddy used to be a Georgian,' Stalin's son, Vasily, once said. Actually, the dictator didn't truly become Russian; he remained Georgian culturally.…

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To make a Frankenstein monster of a complex character like Stalin would have been too simplistic. I wanted to show who he…

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Stalin had 15 scenic seaside villas, some of them czarist palaces, on the Black Sea coast of Abkhazia. In 2002, I visited…

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“That doesn’t matter. Gorky’s a vain man. We must bind him with cables to the Party,” replied Stalin.3 It worked: during the…

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Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by…

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“Once in power, Stalin’s campaign to succeed Lenin required a legitimate heroic career which he did not possess because of his experience…

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“Necessity is very often the mother of romance.”

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There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia is a…

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If only all straight weddings could be somehow gay-ified.

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