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Mikhail Kalinin

(1906–1957) Film Director Soviet Union

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Mikhail Kalinin was a film director from the Soviet Union, best known for "Chernoe zoloto" Kamy.

Quick Facts About Mikhail Kalinin

Born: January 1, 1906
Died: November 30, 1957
Nationality: Soviet Union
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: "Chernoe zoloto" Kamy

About Mikhail Kalinin

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 until his resignation in 1946. From 1926 until his death, he was a member of the Politburo of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Order of the Red Star

Quotes by Mikhail Kalinin

For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples…

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Brotherhood

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The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have…

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Class

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If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.

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Democracy

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You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.

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Education

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But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country…

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Collectives

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The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

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Family

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The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which…

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Best way

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