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„… nie iba dobehnúť, ale aj predbehnúť …“
                                        
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Zdroj: Porovnaj A. A. Michajlov: Ůspěchy sovětské astronomie s. 34
                                    
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„Ani krok späť! Tak teraz musí znieť naše heslo.“
                                        
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Zdroj: s:Rozkaz NKO ZSSR z 28. júla 1942 č. 227
                                    
                                        
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Zdroj: Vyjadrenie pred juhoslovanským politikom Milovanom Djilasom v apríli 1945. Pozri ŠTEFANSKÝ, Michal. Studená vojna : Slovensko 1946 – 1954. Vojenský historický ústav : Bratislava, 2008. 224 s. ISBN 80-9693-755-4. s. 15.
                                    
Josef Stalin: Citáty v angličtine
                                        
                                        Speech on the 24th Anniversary of the Revolution 
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“The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.”
                                        
                                         Speech at The Twelfth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) (19 April 1923) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/TC23.html#s2 
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                                         Speech on the 24th Anniversary of the Revolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IGbjPqFFvA (7 November 1941) 
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                                        But this contradiction is a living thing and wholly reflects the Marxist dialectic. 
Address to the 16th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (1930) Quoted in:  Alfred B. Evans, Soviet Marxism-Leninism: The Decline of an Ideology pg. 39 https://books.google.com/books?id=ezGGPIze4ZYC&pg=PA39&dq=withering+away+of+the+state+stalin&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAWoVChMIz_WZ46adxwIVR5YeCh1g7AKD#v=onepage&q=withering%20away%20of%20the%20state%20stalin&f=false 
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                                         Speech at The Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. (December 1926) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/SEP26.html 
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                                        A teenaged Stalin after reading The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin as quoted in Young Stalin (2007) by Simon Sebag Montefiore, p. 49 
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                                        You see, even when Herr Hitler wants to speak of peace he cannot avoid uttering threats. This is symptomatic.
 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1936/03/01.htmInterview Between J. Stalin and Roy Howard; March 1, 1936 
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                                        Said to Edvard Kardelj (1947), as quoted in Vladimir Dedijer (1954), Tito Speaks, page 312 
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The Foundations of Leninism
“Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous.”
                                        
                                        In Russian: Жить стало лучше, товарищи. Жить стало веселее. 
 Speech at the Conference of Stakhanovites http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/SCS35.html (17 November 1935) 
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“Why did you beat me so hard?”
                                        
                                        to his mother in her later years. Her response was "That's why you turned out so well". Source: Edvard Radzinsky, p. 32 
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                                        as quoted in Joseph Stalin: Dictator of the Soviet Union (2006) by Brenda Haugen, p. 11 
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Zdroj: The Foundations of Leninism, Ch.8
Anarchism or Socialism (1906)
                                        
                                        Proletariatis Brdzola August 1905, as quoted in Young Stalin (2007) by Simon Sebag Montefiore, p. 376 
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                                        Bol'shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska 1912-1927, [Bolshevik Leadership, Correspondence 1912-1927], p. 90 
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“You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.”
                                        
                                        A teenaged Stalin to a fellow student while studying to become a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, as quoted in Landmarks in the Life of Stalin (1942) by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, p. 9 
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                                        Moskovskie novosti, no. 32, 7 August 1988 
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“God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist.”
                                        
                                        Said to Winston Churchill in Tehran, November 1943, as quoted in Fallen Eagle: The Last Days of the Third Reich (1995) by Robin Cross, p. 21 
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“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”
                                        
                                        Said sarcastically to Pierre Laval in 1935, in response to being asked whether he could do anything with Russian Catholics to help Laval win favour with the Pope, to counter the increasing threat of Nazism; as quoted in The Second World War (1948) by Winston Churchill vol. 1, ch. 8, p. 105. 
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                                         "The Order of the National Commissar for the Defense of the Soviet Union" (28 July 1942) Moscow http://www.stalingrad-info.com/order227.htm 
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                                        Said to Molotov in 1943, as quoted in Felix Chuev's 140 Conversations with Molotov Moscow, 1991. 
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“There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.”
                                        
                                        Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965  , p. 131 
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“Tsar Alexander reached Paris.”
                                        
                                        Said to an American diplomat who remarked how grateful it must be to see Russian troops in Berlin.  Quoted in Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger 
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“For some people, four walls are three too many.”
                                        
                                        This seems to have originated with the Spanish military leader Juan Domingo de Monteverde, who, in Francisco de Miranda, a Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution (2003) by Karen Racine, p. 239, is quoted as having said: "four walls are three too many for a prison — you only need one for an execution." 
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                                        As quoted in Stalin : A Biography (2004) by Robert Service, p. 156 
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                                        http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2495035?uid=3738776&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104844992271 
A more accurate translation, with respect to the context, might read: "Cadres are the key to everything" 
In Russian: [...] из всех ценных капиталов, имеющихся в мире, самым ценным и самым решающим капиталом являются люди [...]. Кадры решают все! 
 Address to the Graduates from the Red Army Academies http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/GRA35.html. (4 May 1935); Variant translation: Human resources solve all! 
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                                        Problems of Leninism, August 1924 edition 
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                                        Russian: Чужой земли мы не хотим ни пяди, но и своей вершка ни отдадим.
 Political Report of the C.C. to XVI Party Congress (29 June 1930) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/SC30.html 
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