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  • Before Stalin annexed Eastern Europe.†   (source)
  • And if you had your choice of having Saddam Hussein or Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler or Sarah Byrnes afteryou, you'd pick A, B, and C only, before you picked D. On the off chance she's not faking, if I just penetrated her catatonia for a . second before it regained control, then nothing has changed.†   (source)
  • Hosenfeld finally died in a prisoner of war camp at Stalingrad, a year before Stalin's death.†   (source)
  • In our own century, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and many others also made their contribution to Marxism, or Marxism-Leninism.†   (source)
  • "I won't tire you with all the details, but when I went there, Hitler and Stalin were still good friends and there wasn't yet an Eastern Front.†   (source)
  • In the room a prisoner shouted: "D'you mean to say you think Old Whiskers *[* Stalin.†   (source)
  • I acquired the complete works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and others and probed into the philosophy of dialectical and historical materialism.†   (source)
  • …Colin's mind raced like this: (1) baguettes (2) Katherine XIX (3) the ruby necklace he'd bought her five months and seventeen days before (4) most rubies come from India, which (5) used to be under control of the United Kingdom, of which (6) Winston Churchill was the prime minister, and (7) isn't it interesting how a lot of good politicians, like Churchill and also Gandhi, were bald while (8) a lot of evil dictators, like Hitler and Stalin and Saddam Hussein, were mustachioed?†   (source)
  • Stalin had approved.†   (source)
  • Pictures of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin were glued on the back wall.†   (source)
  • And it would be Stalin's troops who would really beat Hitler: seventy-five percent of the German troops who died fighting in World War II were killed by Russian troops.†   (source)
  • He used to do an imitation of Stalin that could make your sides split.†   (source)
  • Stalin's son had a hard time of it.†   (source)
  • It wasn't because the Emperor had been deposed by a creeping military rebellion, or that the armed forces "committee" that took power had been reduced by infighting and murder to one mad dictator, an army sergeant, a man named Mengistu, who'd eventually make Stalin look like an angel.†   (source)
  • It made Stalin and Hitler look like kindergarten teachers.†   (source)
  • It ultimately proved that our mad Joseph Stalin misunderstood priorities when he asked how many battalions the Pope had.†   (source)
  • The sixty-eight-year-old Khrushchev, who came to power after a brutal political battle to replace Joseph Stalin, well knows how to evaluate an opponent's strengths and weaknesses.†   (source)
  • Oppressors always make rules restricting people's movements, communication, history, teachings … Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot.†   (source)
  • We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there blue with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art could be equal to it.†   (source)
  • Now tell us about Stalin.†   (source)
  • Like Stalin, in fact.†   (source)
  • In fact, it has been confirmed that he shot a portrait of Stalin in the manager's office."†   (source)
  • And at five o'clock, you mustn't be late for your bath with comrade Stalin.†   (source)
  • Even in wartime, in Hitler's time, in Stalin's time, through all occupations.†   (source)
  • The following year, Stalin appointed Khrushchev as head of the Communist Party in Ukraine.†   (source)
  • It is a good thing that Stalin is not alive.†   (source)
  • His Holiness doesn't need them; he achieves more than Stalin ever did with all his purges.†   (source)
  • Stalin's son habitually left a foul mess.†   (source)
  • Stalin's son could not stand the humiliation.†   (source)
  • The Communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them.†   (source)
  • Not until 1980 were we able to read in theSunday Times how Stalin's son, Yakov, died.†   (source)
  • Lately it had been more and more aboutHitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, and Stalin.†   (source)
  • Stalin.†   (source)
  • The Stalin-backed Communists, well armed by Russia, are rumoured to be carrying out purges against the rival POUM, the extremist Trotskyists who have made common cause with the Anarchists.†   (source)
  • "Nazis and Stalin couldn't kill me.†   (source)
  • It was very soon withdrawn from circulation by Stalin's Polish minions, and has not been reissued since, either in Poland or outside.†   (source)
  • They say your officer belonged to a detachment that was involved in spying — so there's nothing we can do about it as Poles, and I'm powerless," he concluded — a man who was all-powerful by the grace of Stalin.†   (source)
  • With only the portraits of Stalin, Lenin, and Marx to consider, the three men had no choice but to fidget.†   (source)
  • The point is, comrade Stalin appears to be on his last legs, and when he gives up his ghost, things are going to become very unpredictable.†   (source)
  • Shortly thereafter, a single train pulled into the station, its doors opened, and out stepped Stalin in full military dress.†   (source)
  • The Count shifted his aim from the Bishop to the portrait of Stalin and shot the former Premier between the eyes.†   (source)
  • The studious reader will recall that upon Stalin's death there were eight men of eminence at the pinnacle of the Party.†   (source)
  • Almost nine months later, on the third of March 1953, the man known variously as Dear Father, Vozhd, Koba, Soso, or simply Stalin would die in his Kuntsevo residence in the aftermath of a stroke.†   (source)
  • But then, on the seventeenth of November 1935, at the First All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites, Stalin himself declared: Life has improved, comrades.†   (source)
  • The former head of the secret police, who many Western observers thought well positioned to inherit the throne when Stalin died, instead was decorated by the Party with a pistol shot to the head.†   (source)
  • Shot a portrait of Stalin.†   (source)
  • The following day, workmen and trucks laden down with flowers arrived at the Palace of Unions on Theatre Square, and within a matter of hours the building's facade was adorned with a portrait of Stalin three stories high.†   (source)
  • But having settled in Italy, he was lured back to Russia by Stalin in '34 and set up in Ryabushinsky's mansion—so that he could preside over the establishment of Socialist Realism as the sole artistic style of the entire Russian people….†   (source)
  • There on the seventeenth of November 1929, Nikolai Bukharin, founding father, editor of Pravda, and last true friend of the peasant, was outmaneuvered by Stalin and ousted from the Politburo—clearing the way for a return to autocracy in all but name.†   (source)
  • Much to the relief of the West, it seemed in the aftermath of the funeral that the man most likely to prevail was the progressive internationalist and outspoken critic of nuclear arms, Malenkov—because, like Stalin, he was appointed as both Premier of the Party and General Secretary of the Central Committee.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, at the Moscow premiere of Rosotsky's fourth film with Anna as leading lady (in which, playing the part of a princess mistaken for an orphan, she falls in love with an orphan mistaken for a prince), it was noted by the savvy in the orchestra section that General Secretary Stalin, who was known so endearingly in his youth as Soso, was not smiling as wholeheartedly at the screen as he had in the past.†   (source)
  • They have been forced to act as any Churchill, Stalin, or Roosevelt: Semiramis from Nineveh, who shaped the Assyrian Empire, and Boudicca, who led one of the bloodiest English revolts against the Roman forces of occupation, to cite just two.†   (source)
  • They had a feeling that Stalin was bargaining for the prisoners somehow, that he was holding them while he weighed his options.†   (source)
  • In late July, the Big Three leaders of the Allied nations—Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Harry Truman of the United States, and Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union—met in Potsdam to map out the closure of the Pacific War.†   (source)
  • The party had insisted that the appropriate conditions had not yet arrived, and waited because they were simply following the textbook definitions of Lenin and Stalin.†   (source)
  • We learned a little about Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, but only as a backdrop to Mao's great political achievements.†   (source)
  • Marko's father, Aleksandr Ramius, had been a hero of the Party, a dedicated, believing Communist who had served Stalin faithfully and well.†   (source)
  • He could not know at the moment, but those same instincts had enabled him to survive the mad Stalin as a youth, the blustering Khrushchev in middle age, and the inept Brezhnev a few years later.†   (source)
  • When Joseph Stalin, the serial killer who ran the Soviet Union for thirty years, ordered a "Great Purge" of his enemies in 1934, Nikita Khrushchev was an eager participant in this plan.†   (source)
  • It was in these factories that Filitov and Ustinov first met, the scarred combat veteran and the gruff apparatchik detailed by Stalin to produce enough tools to drive the hated invaders back.†   (source)
  • This secondary use was the result of the efforts of Nikita Khrushchev, who when construction was begun in the mid-thirties had suggested to Stalin that the system be driven deep.†   (source)
  • Amid the general idiocy of the war, the death of Stalin's son stands out as the sole metaphysical death.†   (source)
  • Young Stalin was therefore both the Son of God (because his father was revered like God) and His cast-off.†   (source)
  • People feared him twofold: he could injure them by both his wrath (he was, after all, Stalin's son) and his favor (his father might punish his cast-off son's friends in order to punish him).†   (source)
  • When Stalin's son ran up to the electrified wire and hurled his body at it, the fence was like the pan of a scales sticking pitifully up in the air, lifted by the infinite lightness of a world that has lost its dimensions.†   (source)
  • That sudden desire of Franz's reminds us of something; yes, it reminds us of Stalin's son, who ran to electrocute himself on the barbed wire when he could no longer stand to watch the poles of human existence come so close to each other as to touch, when there was no longer any difference between sublime and squalid, angel and fly.†   (source)
  • Stalin said so—" he smiled drily, "it is not fashionable to quote Stalin—but he said once 'Half a million liquidated is a statistic, and one man killed in a traffic accident is a national tragedy.'†   (source)
  • After a few questions about my academic history, he asked, "What's your opinion about the split between Stalin and Trotsky?†   (source)
  • Stalin didn't either, did he?†   (source)
  • His parents had been German Jewish refugees, Marxists, and it was not until 1946 that the family returned home, anxious to take part, whatever the personal cost, in the construction of Stalin's Germany.†   (source)
  • When I entered City College, where most of my classmates came from more sophisticated families, I was surprised to find boys my own age who worried about Hitler, Stalin, and the future of Europe.†   (source)
  • Have you ever heard of Stalin?†   (source)
  • He's heard of Stalin.†   (source)
  • I'd just turned fourteen when Hitler and Stalin signed their nonaggression pact which cleared the European stage for World War II to start, but though I delivered the papers that told the story in gigantic headlines, I was baffled when a man bought one from me, glanced at the front page, and said, "So it's war."†   (source)
  • It had been Stalin's The National and Colonial Question that had captured my interest.†   (source)
  • Stalin is out to get him because he's the conscience of the revolutionary world.†   (source)
  • Mr. Paul Blanshard, speaking of army censorship in The Right to Read (1955) says, "A few pro-Axis foreign-language magazines had been banned, as well as three books, including Dalton Trumbo's pacifist novel Johnny Get Your Gun, produced during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact.†   (source)
  • I have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant Russian people and for my wartime comrade, Marshal Stalin.†   (source)
  • He did not like Karkov, but Karkov, coming from Pravda and in direct communication with Stalin, was at this moment one of the three most important men in Spain.†   (source)
  • I have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant Russian people and for my wartime comrade, Marshal Stalin.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, if the masses were conceivably to ask for avant-garde art and literature, Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin would not hesitate long in attempting to satisfy such a demand.†   (source)
  • Because I remember-sniffing, you know-just when I was talking about the utter washout Stalin's Five Year Plan was turning out.†   (source)
  • What the acceptance of the isolation of the Russian Revolution forces Stalin to do, Hitler is compelled to do by his acceptance of the contradictions of capitalism and his efforts to freeze them.†   (source)
  • Didn't the Chief Executive pass sleepless nights at Yalta because Stalin for the first two days did not smile?†   (source)
  • Stalin's book showed how diverse minorities could be welded into unity, and I regarded it as a most politically sensitive volume that revealed a new way of looking upon lost and beaten peoples.†   (source)
  • We can see then that although from one point of view the personal philistinism of Hitler and Stalin is not accidental to the roles they play, from another point of view it is only an incidentally contributory factor in determining the cultural policies of their respective regimes.†   (source)
  • While engaged in conversation, they stuck their thumbs in their suspenders or put their left hands into their shirtbosoms or hooked their thumbs into their back pockets as they had seen Lenin or Stalin do in photographs.†   (source)
  • If Europe ever goes Bolshevik she'll turn up as the bride of Stalin.†   (source)
  • I am like the Joseph Stalin of narrators.†   (source)
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