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Joseph Vissarionovitch Djougachvili , connu sous le nom de Joseph Staline , également surnommé par sa propre propagande le Vojd ou Le père des peuples, né le 18 décembre 1878 — officiellement le 21 décembre 1879 — à Gori et mort le 5 mars 1953 à Moscou, est un révolutionnaire communiste et homme d'État soviétique d'origine géorgienne.

Secrétaire général du Parti communiste soviétique à partir de 1922, il dirige l'Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques à partir de la fin des années 1920 jusqu'à sa mort. Il établit un régime de dictature personnelle : les historiens lui attribuent, à des degrés divers, la responsabilité de la mort de trois à plus de vingt millions de personnes.

Surnommé Sosso pendant son enfance, il se fait ensuite appeler Koba dans ses premières années de militantisme clandestin et par ses amis proches. Il utilise ensuite le pseudonyme de Staline, formé sur le mot russe сталь , qui signifie acier.

Par un jeu patient d'intrigues souterraines et d'alliances successives avec les diverses factions du parti unique bolchevik, et en s'appuyant sur la toute-puissante police politique et sur la bureaucratisation croissante du régime, il impose progressivement un pouvoir personnel absolu et transforme l'URSS en un régime de type totalitaire dont le culte obligatoire rendu à sa propre personne est un des traits les plus marquants. Il fait nationaliser intégralement les terres, et industrialise l'Union soviétique à marche forcée par des plans quinquennaux, au prix d'un coût humain et social exorbitant. Son long règne est marqué par un régime de terreur et de délation paroxystiques et par la mise à mort ou l'envoi aux camps de travail du Goulag de millions de personnes, notamment au cours de la collectivisation des campagnes et des Grandes Purges de 1937. Il pratique aussi bien des déplacements de population massifs, dont la déportation intégrale d'une quinzaine de minorités nationales, que la sédentarisation forcée non moins désastreuse de nomades d'Asie centrale. Il nie aussi l'existence des famines meurtrières de 1932-1933 et de 1946-1947 après les avoir en partie provoquées par une politique impitoyable de réquisitions forcées de produits agricoles dans les campagnes. Le secret et la propagande systématiquement entretenus autour de ses faits et gestes font du travestissement de la réalité et de la réécriture du passé une caractéristique permanente de son pouvoir absolu.

Son souvenir est aussi associé à la victoire militaire des Alliés sur l'Allemagne nazie dont l'Union soviétique est un des principaux artisans, après la rupture en juin 1941 du pacte germano-soviétique, traité de non-agression dont la signature en août 1939 a été le prélude au déclenchement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La victoire dans un conflit qui a mis l'URSS au bord du gouffre confère à Staline un prestige international retentissant et lui permet d'affirmer son emprise sur un empire s'étendant de la frontière occidentale de la RDA à l'océan Pacifique.

Joseph Staline est également l'auteur de textes exposant ses conceptions du marxisme et du léninisme, qui contribuent à fixer pour des décennies, au sein du mouvement communiste, l'orthodoxie marxiste-léniniste. Sa pratique politique et ses conceptions idéologiques sont désignées sous le terme de stalinisme.

Après la mort de Staline, ces pratiques sont dénoncées par Nikita Khrouchtchev au cours du XXe congrès du Parti communiste de l'Union soviétique de 1956 : la déstalinisation et la relative détente qui s'ensuivent n'entraînent cependant pas une démocratisation en profondeur du bloc de l'Est. Ce n'est qu'à l'époque de la perestroïka mise en place par Mikhaïl Gorbatchev que les crimes de Staline peuvent être dénoncés en URSS dans toute leur ampleur,.

✵ 9. décembre 1879 – 5. mars 1953   •   Autres noms Josif Vissarionovič Stalin, Josif Stalin
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“Cette guerre ne ressemble pas à celles du passé : quiconque occupe un territoire lui impose aussi son système social. Tout le monde impose son propre système aussi loin que son armée peut avancer. Il ne saurait en être autrement.”

à Tito en avril 1945 à propos de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, cité par Milovan Djilas dans Conversations avec Staline (1963)
Seconde Guerre mondiale

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“Le pape? Combien de divisions?”

le 13 mai 1935 à Pierre Laval, lui proposant de faire preuve de diplomatie envers le l'État du Vatican.[Le petit livre de - les grandes phrases, Gilles Guilleron, First Editions, 2010, 117]
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Joseph Staline: Citations en anglais

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

No evidence that this phrasing is due to Stalin, and it does not appear in English translations of his philosphical works. Earliest English is found in 1979 in US defense industry, presumably defense consultant Thomas A. Callaghan Jr. The connection of sufficient quantitative change leading to qualitative change is found in Marxist philosophy, by Marx and Engels, drawing from Hegelian philosophy and Ancient Greek philosophy. Marx and Engels are quoted by Stalin, but this formulation appears to be a modern American form; see quantity for details.
Stalin may have said that way before World War II, there is evidence in his Russian-language books, for example here http://www.modernlib.ru/books/stalin_iosif_vissarionovich/tom_14/read_16/.
Misattributed
Variante: Quantity is quality.
Source: Re: "Quantity has a quality all its own" source? http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-russia&month=1004&week=a&msg=ljEwsM4dMrpmUGVfI7EGqg, Tim Davenport, h-russia https://networks.h-net.org/h-russia, April 5, 2010

“You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.”

"omlets are not made without breaking eggs" first appeared in English in 1796. It is from the French, "on ne saurait faire d'omelette sans casser des œufs" (1742 and earlier), attributed to François de Charette.
In the context of the Soviet Union, Time magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,753448-2,00.html attributes it to Lazar Kaganovich.
Walter Duranty associated with Stalin in the New York Times.
"But – to put it brutally – you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, and the Bolshevist leaders are just as indifferent to the casualties that may be involved in their drive toward socialization as any General during the World War who ordered a costly attack in order to show his superiors that he and his division possessed the proper soldierly spirit. In fact, the Bolsheviki are more indifferent because they are animated by fanatical conviction."
Walter Duranty, Special Cable to The New York Times http://www.artukraine.com/old/famineart/duranty.htm, The New York Times, New York, March 31, 1933, page 13.
Misattributed
Variante: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

“Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism”

“Concerning the International Situation,” Works, Vol. 6, January-November, 1924, pp. 293-314.
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Contexte: Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.... These organisations (ie Fascism and social democracy) are not antipodes, they are twins.

“So the bastard's dead? Too bad we didn't capture him alive!”

Said in April 1945 — On hearing of Hitler's suicide, as quoted in The Memoirs of Georgy Zhukov http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/zhukov1/22.html
Contemporary witnesses

“I know that the gentlemen in the enemy camp may think of me however they like. I consider it beneath me to try to change the minds of these gentlemen.”

Omitted portion of an interview between Stalin and Emil Ludwig (13 December 1931) http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/research/stalinludwig_missing_eng.html
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“It is impossible to finish off capitalism without having finished off social democracy in the working-class movement.”

Voprosi Leninizma, Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo politicheskoy literaturi, (1939)
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“Ours is a just cause; victory will be ours!”

In Russian: Наше дело правое — победа будет за нами!
Speech at celebration meeting (6 November 1941). However, Stalin was quoting Vyacheslav Molotov's speech to the Soviet people of June 22, 1941. A facsimile of the draft of this speech is reprinted in the Russian journal _Istoricheskii Arkhiv_ No. 2, 1995, pp. 35-37. This quotation, in Molotov's handwriting, is on p. 37 of that issue. http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/GPW46.html#s2
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“If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”

The Political Report of the Central Committee, The Fifteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) (7 December 1927) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/FC27.html#s5iii
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“The idea of a concentration camp is excellent.”

On ideas of eradicating 'counter-revolutionaries and traitors' in Estonia, as quoted in Stalin : A Biography (2004) by Robert Service, p. 158; also in Bol'shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska, 1912-1927, p. 36.
Contemporary witnesses

“If, against all expectation, Germany finds itself in a difficult situation then she can be sure that the Soviet people will come to Germany's aid and will not allow Germany to be strangled. The Soviet Union wants to see a strong Germany and we will not allow Germany to be thrown to the ground.”

Statement in September 1939, as quoted in "Stalin's pact with Hitler" in WWII Behind Closed Doors at PBS http://www.pbs.org/behindcloseddoors/episode-1/ep1_stalins_pact.html
Contemporary witnesses

“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.”

Speech "The Tasks of Economic Executives" (4 February 1931) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/TEE31.html Stalin said this in 1931, at the beginning of the rapid industrialization campaign. Ten years later, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
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“True courage consists in being strong enough to master and overcome oneself and subordinate one’s will to the will of the collective, the will of the higher party body.”

Quoted in The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom, Arthur M. Schesinger, New Brunswick: NJ, Transaction Publishers (1998) p. 56. First printed in 1949. Second Speech Delivered at the Presidium of the ECCI on the American Question (May 14, 1929)
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“The writer is the engineer of the human soul.”

Said by Stalin at a meeting of fifty top Soviet writers at Maxim Gorky's house in Moscow (26 October 1932), as quoted in Simon Sebag Montefiore's Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar, p. 85, and Edvard Radzinsky's Stalin, pp. 259-63. Primary source: K. Zelinsky's contemporary record of the event. It was published in English in Stalin and the Literary Intelligentsia,. (1991) by А. Kemp-Welch, Basingstoke and London, pp. 12-31.
Contemporary witnesses

“Does Djilas, who is himself a writer, not know what human suffering and the human heart are? Can't he understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a wench or takes some trifle?”

In response to complaints about the rapes and looting committed by the Red Army during the Second World War, as quoted in Conversations with Stalin (1963) by Milovan Djilas, p. 95
Contemporary witnesses

“He can't even shoot straight.”

On his son Yakov’s suicide attempt, as quoted in Encyclopedia of Useless Information (2007) by William Harston
Contemporary witnesses

“The existing pseudo-government which was not elected by the people and which is not accountable to the people must be replaced by a government recognised by the people, elected by representatives of the workers, soldiers and peasants and held accountable to their representatives.”

"What We Need", editorial published (24 October 1917), as quoted in Stalin : A Biography (2004) by Robert Service; also in Sochineniya, Vol. 3, p. 389
Variant translation:
The present imposter government, which was not elected by the people and which is not accountable to the people, must be replaced by a government recognized by the people, elected by representatives of the workers, soldiers and peasants, and held accountable to their representatives
As quoted in The Bolsheviks Come to Power : The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (2004) by Alexander Rabinowitch, p. 252
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“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and aeroplanes.”

Speech "The Elections in St. Petersburg" (January 1913) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/ESP13.html
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“Nationalist in form; socialist in context.”

"Language Policy in the Soviet Union", Lenore A. Grenoble, New York: NY, Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003) p. 41.
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“Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division, and from the antagonism between poor and rich, means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.”

Interview http://www.rationalrevolution.net/special/library/cc835_44.htm with H. G. Wells (September 1937)
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Variante: Which means Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

“Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.”

"The Order #55 of the National Commissar for the Defense" (23 February 1942) http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420223a.html Stalin said this when the enemy had reached the gate of Moscow during World War II. He called on the people not to identify all Germans with the Nazis.
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