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“Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.”

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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

“Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.”

“If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.”

People Ifs Looks Humanity History Generations Crime Photograph Ashamed Future Generation Crimes Against Humanity

Author:Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

“What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!”

Men Ends Age History Progress Economic Extraordinary Episodes August Economic Progress

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.”

History Realising Fragile Civilisation

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.”

Done Courses History Wonderful Western Aids Vehicle Steel Tanks

Author:Georgy Zhukov

“If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.”

Ifs Knows Eye History Fire His Eyes

Book:Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

“The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.”

Firsts Play Song Father Brother Folks Exposed Folk Music Christmas Song

Author:Matt Dillon

“All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale.”

History Taken Jew Scales Immigration Palestine Large Scale

Author:Faisal I of Iraq

“What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.”

Made War Growth History Inevitable Athenians Sparta

Author:Thucydides

“This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.”

War Left History Kings Weapons Athenians

Author:Livy

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