Joseph Stalin Quotes

In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

The Soviet state builds bodies—mounds of them.

No one has murdered more communists than the Communist Soviet Union under Stalin

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.

Heaven’s Yes. I was hopelessly naïve regarding Joseph Stalin. I thought he just drove too hard.

Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev. And his crimes were even more explicitly exposed by Mikhail Gorbachev during the late '80s. Yet to many, Stalin remains more legitimate as a Russian leader than anyone since.

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

I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.

Only enemies of the Soviet Union can think of the KGB as some kind of secret police.

Negotiating with Stalin was like dealing with an octopus.

If only I could dine with Stalin once a week, there would be no trouble at all.

Putin regards Stalin as a great tsar; he is a great tsar. Asked who the worst tsars were, he said Nicholas II and Gorbachev.

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 relationship with Joseph's mother, Keke Geladze, came to an end when the boy was around six years old.

When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the '50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries. The ideological control of the society was almost absolute.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!

They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world.

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.