Joseph Stalin Quotes

“in keeping with the “tough-guy” tradition, credits Stalin with one other desire: permission from his allies to raze Berlin, as a lesson in psychology to the Germans and as a burnt offering to his own heroic people.”
― Time Inc., Joseph Stalin: TIME Person of the Year 1942

“What other war aims Stalin has are not officially known, but there are reports in high circles that he wants no new territories except at points needed to make Russia impregnable against invasion.”
― Time Inc., Joseph Stalin: TIME Person of the Year 1942

“As Allies fighting the common enemy, the Russians have fought the best fight so far. As post-war collaborators, they hold many of the keys to a successful peace.”
― Time Inc., Joseph Stalin: TIME Person of the Year 1942

“Stalin faced the fundamental problems of providing enough food for the people and improving their lot through 20th-century industrial methods. He collectivized the farms and he built Russia into one of the four great industrial powers on earth. How well he succeeded was evident in Russia’s world-surprising, strength in World War II. Stalin’s methods were tough, but they paid off.”
― Time Inc., Joseph Stalin: TIME Person of the Year 1942

“Gone was nearly half of Russia’s best farmland.”
― Time Inc., Joseph Stalin: TIME Person of the Year 1942