The Soviet government has transformed a backward peasant cou... - Joseph Stalin

"The Soviet government has transformed a backward peasant country into an industrial power."

Joseph Stalin

Dictator, Communist Leader Georgian-Soviet 1878–1953

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"Death is the only way out."

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."