“God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist.”

Said to Winston Churchill in Tehran, November 1943, as quoted in Fallen Eagle: The Last Days of the Third Reich (1995) by Robin Cross, p. 21
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General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879–1953

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