ARCHANGEL

STALIN QUOTES:

• Out of filth you can make a prince
• Gratitude is a dogs disease.
• There are no fortresses which Bolsheviks cannot capture
• There is one eternally true legend - that of Judas.
• One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic
• You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves
• Death solves all problems: no man, no problem
• To choose ones victims, to prepare ones plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed - there is nothing sweeter in the world.
• I trust no one any more, not even myself
• Convictions can change but fear remains.
• (1) weakness (2) laziness (3) stupidity are the only things that can becalled vices. All else, in the absence of the above-mentioned, is virtue
• Ivan the Terribe would execute someone and then spend a long time repenting and praying. God got in his way in this matter. He ought to have been still more decisive!
• If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods.

QUOTES ABOUT STALIN:

Q. Do you dream about Stalin?

MOLOTOV. Not often, but sometimes. The circumstances are very strange - I'm in some sort of destroyed city, and I can't find any way out. Afterwards, I meet with him. In a word, very strange dreams, very confused [1991]

TROTSKY (first impression of Stalin): A very thin man, rather short, his face swarthy with a greyish tinge and clearly visible pockmarks. He looked anything but friendly. This stranger emitted a guttural sound, which might have been taken for a greeting The impression he made was difficult to describe, but no ordinary one