Quotes having the keyword Stalin
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
by Harold Bloom (born in 1930) keywords: admit, am, criticism, entered, goes, out, phase, stalin, stalinism, sympathy, totally, universities, where , without 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.
by W. Averell Harriman (born in 1891) keywords: afraid, awe, certain, him, influence, roosevelt, sort, spoke, stalin, think, watched, whenever , world 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.
by W. Averell Harriman (born in 1891) keywords: afford, again, been, build, clear, fear, germany, happen, him, invaded, made, many, see, spoke, stalin, times, twice, united, up, want , willing 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.
by W. Averell Harriman (born in 1891) keywords: always, been, control, country, course, europe, had, invasion, key, plains, poland, remember, route, russia, stalin, telling, therefore , were 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.
by W. Averell Harriman (born in 1891) keywords: agreement, before, broken, determined, died, eastern, europe, finally, had, his, over, poland, realized, roosevelt, stalin, stop, taking , thought 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.
by W. Averell Harriman (born in 1891) keywords: awful, became, brutality, convinced, great, held, his, leader, never, regardless, reign, stalin, terror, war, without , would 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.
by W. Averell Harriman (born in 1891) keywords: against, agreed, back, both, determined, fight, germans, get, go, hold, moscow, never, out, stalin, surrender, them, told, us , wrong 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.
by Douglas Hurd (born in 1930) keywords: accepted, actions, cannot, defence, hitler, immediate, justified, men, plead, stalin, their, these, time, values , were 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.
by Guillermo Cabrera Infante (born in 1929) keywords: been, beginning, communism, convent, converted, during, earth, educated, father, god, gods, had, heaven, most, mother, period, rampant, she, stalin , two In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.
by Tom Paulin (born in 1949) keywords: both, british, carries, complicity, construction, creation, culture, european, faced, heavy, israel, never, own, product, responsibility, stalin, their, very , view 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.
by Mark Shields (born in 1937) keywords: agreements, broke, completely, consequence, eastern, elections, europe, held, immediately, into, made, plunged, poland, question, slavery, stalin, supposed , were 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.
by Larry Summers (born in 1954) keywords: allow, century, european, even, him, landscape, more, shape, stalin, would , wrong 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.
by Harry S. Truman (born in 1884) topics: History keywords: almost, am, corps, equal, force, long, machine, marine, navy, police, president, propaganda, remain, stalin , will 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.
by Simon Wiesenthal (born in 1908) keywords: alive, because, denying, forget, hitler, makes, monsters, possible, resurrection, stalin, these, today, two, us , waiting
