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#stalin

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I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.


Brian Cox


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The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.


Harry S. Truman


#almost #am #corps #equal #force

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.


W. Averell Harriman


#awe #certain #him #i #i think

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.


W. Averell Harriman


#again #been #build #clear #fear

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.


W. Averell Harriman


#been #control #country #course #europe

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


W. Averell Harriman


#eastern #eastern europe #europe #every #every day

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.


W. Averell Harriman


#became #brutality #convinced #great #great war

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.


Douglas Hurd


#actions #cannot #defence #hitler #immediate

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.


Guillermo Cabrera Infante


#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.


Gyorgy Ligeti


#hitler #impossible #many #stalin #then






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