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“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.”

Quote by Joseph Stalin

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Joseph Stalin, the former Premier of the Soviet Union, was born on December 18, 1878, and died on March 5, 1953. He was the leader of the Soviet Communist Party and had a profound impact on the political, economic, and military development of the Soviet Union. more

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

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Book:1934-1940

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“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.”

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

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

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Book:1934-1940

Source: 1934-1940

“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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“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.”

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Author:Joseph Stalin