We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us. - Joseph Stalin

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We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

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About Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 21 December {9 December Old Style} 1879 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he ultimately consolidated power to become the Soviet Union's dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism while his own policies are known as Stalinism. He was the father of Svetlana Alliluyeva.

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Native Name: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი Иосиф Виссарионович Джугашвили
Also Known As: Uncle Joe
Alternative Names: Ioseb Besarionis dze Dzhugashvili Stalin Josef Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin Koba Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Joey Stalin Yosif Dzhugashvili Ioseb Jugashvili Ioseb Dzhugashvili General Secretary Joseph Stalin General Secretary Stalin Stavros Papadopoulos
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It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

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