Stalin Quotes

Stalin has caused Socialism greater damage than anyone else.

Basically the first half-hour of the opera is an extended prologue, which is all material from the first two weeks of July 1945, ... Germany has just capitulated. Truman is meeting Stalin at Potsdam, which is where all this pressure comes from for the test to work. Oppenheimer has been in these meetings in Washington to select the target, and it`s full steam ahead to Japan.

There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.

There`s no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin`s awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt`s influence in the world.

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he`d never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they`d go back to the Urals and fight. They`d never surrender.

It was fear. He didn`t want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn`t afford to let Germany build up again. They`d been invaded twice, and he wasn`t willing to have it happen again.

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

If FDR had lived, the cold war wouldn`t have developed the way it did, because Stalin would have tried to get along with Roosevelt.

There`s a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

No, Stalin did not die. He thinks that death can be fixed. We removed him from the mausoleum. But how do we remove Stalin from Stalin`s heirs?

If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East and Southeast Europe along with the greater part of the Reich. An iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.