I think my emotional revulsion against Stalin's terror would have stopped me in my tracks. Theodore Hall American Criminal More Theodore Hall Quotes 0
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. Guillermo Cabrera Infante Cuban Novelist More Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes 0
Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers? John Amery British Politician More John Amery Quotes 0
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. Edgar Bergen American Actor More Edgar Bergen Quotes 0
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin. Harold Bloom American Critic More Harold Bloom Quotes 0
I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world. W. Averell Harriman American Politician More W. Averell Harriman Quotes 0
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again. W. Averell Harriman American Politician More W. Averell Harriman Quotes 0
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland. W. Averell Harriman American Politician More W. Averell Harriman Quotes 0
Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement. W. Averell Harriman American Politician More W. Averell Harriman Quotes 0
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta. W. Averell Harriman American Politician More W. Averell Harriman Quotes 0
We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender. W. Averell Harriman American Politician More W. Averell Harriman Quotes 0
Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied. Nikita Khrushchev Russian Statesman More Nikita Khrushchev Quotes 0
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin. Gyorgy Ligeti Hungarian Composer More Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes 0
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time. Douglas Hurd British Politician More Douglas Hurd Quotes 0
In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction. Tom Paulin Irish Poet More Tom Paulin Quotes 0
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. Harry S. Truman American President More Harry S. Truman Quotes 0
There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters. Simon Wiesenthal Austrian Activist More Simon Wiesenthal Quotes 0
There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence. Mark Shields American Journalist More Mark Shields Quotes 0
It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century. Larry Summers American Economist More Larry Summers Quotes 0
Pol Pot killed one point seven million Cambodians, died under house arrest, well done there. Stalin killed many millions, died in his bed, aged seventy-two, well done indeed. And the reason we let them get away with it is they killed their own people. And we're sort of fine with that. Hitler killed people next door. Oh, stupid man. After a couple of years we won't stand for that, will we? Eddie Izzard British Comedian More Eddie Izzard Quotes 0
The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe. Francois Mitterand French President More Francois Mitterand Quotes 0
suggested he would not favor sending even Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin or Idi Amin to the gallows. Jerry Kilgore More Jerry Kilgore Quotes 0
There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty underdrawers, who stand at attention and salute them. Nikita Khrushchev More Nikita Khrushchev Quotes 0
Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation and patient cooperation with people, but by imposing his concepts and demanding absolute submission to his opinion. Whoever opposed this concept or tried to prove his [own] viewpoint, and the correctness of his [own] position, was doomed to removal from the leading collective and to subsequent moral and physical annihilation. Nikita Khrushchev More Nikita Khrushchev Quotes 0