Decent Quote by Harry S. Truman

I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN.

— Michael Winner

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

— Harry S. Truman

I rather liked Stalin and Molotov, got along fine with them.

— Joachim von Ribbentrop

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him…

— Che Guevara

I consider him Stalin one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion,…

— Alexander Zinoviev

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

“Joe is a man of integrity, incapable of hiding what he really thinks, and one of those rare people you know you could turn…

— Robert M. Gates

Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.

— Palmiro Togliatti

“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented life of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the abolition of…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

It cannot be so very surprising that I adopted a Communist viewpoint in the 1930s; so many of my contemporaries made the same choice.…

— Kim Philby

Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. His father was a hard-drinking cobbler whose…

— Keith Gessen