40 Quotes About Stalinism

That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.

Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days.The three extra days were for leap years.

Here a man can live. All right, it's a 'special' camp. So what? Does it bother you to wear a number? They don't weigh anything, those numbers.

A cadre must know how to carry out instructions, must understand them, adopt them as his own. attach the greatest importance to them, and make them part of his very existence. Otherwise, politics loses its meaning and consists merely of gesticulating. Hence the decisive importance of the cadres department in the apparatus of the Central Committee. Every functionary must be closely studied, from every angle and in the most minute detail.

If it were possible for any nation to fathom another people's bitter experience through a book, how much easier its future fate would become and how many calamities and mistakes it could avoid. But it is very difficult. There always is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.'Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.

У истории русской страницыхватит для тех, кто в пехотном строюсмело входили в чужие столицы,но возвращались в страхе в свою.

You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.

The days rolled by in the camp—they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they never moved by a second.

A couple of ounces ruled your life.