“Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism.”

—  Anastas Mikoyan

Statement of 13 March 1939, as quoted in "Facts on Communism" (1960) by the United States Congress, p. 157

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