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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?


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ALLEN TATE We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN The Bolshevik leaders perched atop the Mausoleum were no easier to tell apart than chess pawns. But ...
SANA KRASIKOV Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not ...
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV You can forget Stalin,” he said, pledging his allegiance. “We’re not the History Channel.
TIMUR VERMES We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN Joseph ...
W.E.B. DU BOIS If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... We asked ourselves, how did this happen? We were too far removed from the daily operations.
CAROLYN SMITH One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
JOSEPH STALIN suggested he would not favor sending even Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin or Idi Amin to the gallows.
JERRY KILGORE I'm sad to see him go. I hope and pray we get the level of cooperation from the next director as we ...
ABE BONOWITZ Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our h...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT reminiscent more of Stalin and Hitler.
BARBARA BLAINE People imagine that Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin arrived in Yalta with a blank sheet of paper to ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire ...
JIM CAVIEZEL Mandelstam's wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be dest...
ANTHONY HECHT From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly ...
ALBERT CAMUS Wishing on that far away star, how far removed we truly are.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON unsettling, like seeing Stalin on a skateboard.
DAVID NICHOLLS Doing the bidding of the Chinese government like this is like doing the bidding of Stalin or Hitler ...
YU JIE He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The eyes of Stalin, the voice of Marilyn Monroe.
FRANCOIS MITTERAND A heckler once interrupted Nikita Khrushchev in the middle of a speech in which he was denouncing th...
ROBERT GREENE Our last words to you, which are the words I began with: William Jefferson Clinton is not guilty of ...
CHARLES RUFF "Epitaph on a Tyrant" is about Stalin, but is perfect for Saddam Hussein.
ROBERT FISK By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He blesses us so we can be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from.
STEVEN MAGEE Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.
VLADIMIR PUTIN I don't see how any degree of faith can exclude the dismay, since Christ's faith did not save Him fr...
C.S. LEWIS The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by d...
ERIC HOFFER The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by de...
ERIC HOFFER The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
OCTAVIAN PALER Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: / Knowing that Christ be...
BIBLE I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a cert...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.
KEN FOLLETT We're asking that he be removed from negotiations. He's not a valid negotiator.
EDUARDO TORRES There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can
HENRY FORD How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it JOSEPH ADDISON I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; b...
R. J. HOLLINGDALE If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presentl...
E.M. FORSTER He's really good. He's gotten better each month and he knows we expect a lot from him, and he expect...
BYRON SCOTT Tadas was sent to the principal today," announced Jonas at dinner. He wedged a huge piece of sausage...
RUTA SEPETYS We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH
I do not carry a sickle or scythe.
I only wear a hooded black robe ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
JOSEPH STALIN If we must fight, then let the American People fight and die Bravely with honor, dignity, & pride an...
DWIGHT W. HAYES It is very time consuming and almost impossible to cut grass around signs placed on rights-of-way. W...
BILL SHELTON I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a ...
HARRY S TRUMAN Death. I wish the word could be removed from the vocabulary and from the dictionary. It simply does ...
KATE MCGAHAN What does he say?' he asked.
'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that y...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he s...
LUKAS FOSS Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.
VLADIMIR PUTIN We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and e...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.
ROBERT HARRIS The word has been removed from the NOI (notice of intent) that discussed mechanical ways to remove m...
VANESSA GULATI My experiment has demonstrated that people from the past can be artificially reincarnated. The purpo...
CAROLINA CODY ALDAZ But, as I watch this film, I often think that the boy did not know what he was really running toward...
PAT CONROY I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why didn't we put Stalin on trial? I'll tell you why...In order to condemn Stalin, you'd have to con...
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize ...
PETER KREEFT Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as d...
BOB AINSWORTH God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
BIBLE We had a discussion with Rogers and his understanding of what the crew told him was that the trees w...
DEBORA LIVENGOOD We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless...
MATTHEW SIMPSON Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
EDGAR BERGEN Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
MITCH ALBOM We did find one that can do pretty good. But he's still not up to par because he can't sing backgrou...
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even m...
LARRY SUMMERS Greatness comes not in possessing security, but in withstanding insecurity.
JEFFREY FRY Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fa...
HANNAH ARENDT We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well; and...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I have no reason to believe anything other than that he has now told everything he thinks he can fro...
LEIF SILBERSKY He wasn't overpowering but he changed speeds. We didn't do a good job of adjusting to him. We did la...
CHRIS PEDRETTI I can do oblivion, you know. I can do it better than him. I'd like to see how he likes it if I just ...
MELINA MARCHETTA He had infections in both of his big toes and he told our training staff to do what they had to do t...
DON MATTHEWS When we are rich and famous and powerful, we do not want to die. On the other hand, if we are misera...
LIEZI Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being throw...
JOHN AMERY Liz wrenched her hand from his grasp, and this time, she stepped boldly forward. “I will stay and ...
WILLOW CROSS A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove ...
E. B. WHITE There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections th...
MARK SHIELDS Just as teenagers can live in the same house as their parents, yet choose not to live “close” to...
THERESA DEDMON Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't di...
RAY BRADBURY I want him put to death so that he can just be taken away from this world. I really miss my wife.
ABRAHAM SCOTT I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Le...
BRIAN COX The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't re...
FRANCIS CHAN From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
EDGAR BERGEN The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if ...
ANNIE DILLARD There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalt...
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