Latest Joseph Stalin Quotes from Interviews

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• Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

  Joseph Stalin

  World, Opinion, Constitution

• Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.

  Joseph Stalin

  Government, Hands, Secret

• Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

  Joseph Stalin

  Organization, Spurs, Election

• Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, People, Firsts

• Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to make our labor more effective, our life more cultured? Such will be the criteria with which millions of voters will approach candidates, casting away those who are unfit, striking them off lists, advancing better ones, nominating them for elections.

  Joseph Stalin

  School, Voters, Casting

• Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Population, Guarantees

• Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ have to satisfy one or another of the many-sided and ever increasing demands of the working population of town and countryside.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Government, Organization

• We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

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  People, Giving, Voting

• Why will our elections be equal? Because neither differences in regard to property (differences partly existing) nor differences of race and nationality will cause any privileges or disadvantages. Women will enjoy the right to elect and be elected equally with men. Our elections will be really equal.

  Joseph Stalin

  Men, Race, Differences

• Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected.

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  Citizens, Election, Vote

• Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.

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  Party, Socialism, Fascists

• The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, Party, Class

• Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.

  Joseph Stalin

  Cities, Organization, People

• As soon as there are no more classes, as soon as boundaries between classes are effaced, as soon as only a few but non-fundamental differences between various strata of the socialist society remain - there can no longer be nourishing ground for the formation of parties struggling among themselves.

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  Struggle, Party, Class

• We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.

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  Indulge In, Together, Fault Finding

• We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Class, Workers

• The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

  Joseph Stalin

  Democracy, Vices, Vice Versa

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

• Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.

  Joseph Stalin

  Jobs, Real, Home

• American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

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  Democracy, American Democracy, Soviet

• It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.

  Joseph Stalin

  Liberty, Imagine, Hungry

• We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

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  Real, Liberty, Sake

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

• We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

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  Order, Personality, Liberty

• It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.

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  Mean, Requirements, Way

• Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.

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  Order, Creating, People

• Of course, in order to build something new, one has to economize, accumulate means, temporarily limit one's requirements, borrow from others. If you want to build a new house,
  you save money temporarily and limit your requirements, otherwise you might not build your house.

  Joseph Stalin

  Mean, Order, House