The most slandered quotes of Stalin

The legacy of Joseph Stalin, undoubtedly one of the most prominent figures in our history, consists not only of an impressive list of victories and achievements - military, economic, social and others. Stalin is also a huge number of written works, which, when published, made up a multivolume collection, and, of course, many bright sayings and aphorisms on a variety of topics. Here is just one "but" ... On closer examination, it turns out that many of Stalin's "quotes" (and, in particular, those that our liberals love to incline so much) do not belong to him at all!





But it is precisely on the basis of such “revelations” of the Leader that our “democratic public” is trying to draw far-reaching conclusions regarding his position on certain issues. First of all - the relationship to people and the country at the head of which he stood. Yes, and then he tries to impose these "conclusions" on everyone else, posing as the ultimate truth, based allegedly on "documentary evidence." However, the truth in such attempts is not a penny. Just juggling with other people's words, juggling and juggling. This is exactly what we will prove now - on very specific examples.

“Stalin considered people nothing more than“ cogs ”! A familiar statement, isn't it !? What are its roots? The story with the “cogs” stretches from the toast, which in 1945 the Generalissimo delivered in the Kremlin at a gala reception that gathered at the festive table the elite of the command of the Red Army, its best commanders, military leaders who saved the country from the Nazi invasion, liberated Europe, defeated the strongest army in the world and its many allies. Yes, Stalin used the word "cogs." But ... First, it was about the "cogs of the state machine", which, like any other, by definition, cannot consist of, say, a single engine. And, secondly, the Supreme in the face of the brilliant generals and marshals of Victory directly said that they all (and he himself - including!) Without these “cogs” are worth absolutely nothing! Feel the difference, as they say. The one who, on the basis of this statement, is trying to bring nonsense about Stalin's "indifferent" or "arrogant" attitude towards people - either, excuse me, is a complete fool, or an impudent liar.

However, with this quote we have not the worst option yet. "Cogs", indeed, sounded - here just an attempt to mercilessly ripping words out of context. But much more often, for the "true sayings" of Joseph Vissarionovich, they try to "sell" things to us that he never said at all! "Stalin: there are no prisoners of war in the Red Army, but there are only traitors and traitors to the Motherland!" Do you want to know where the "fireballs" come from? Only I humbly ask - do not look for the primary source in the complete collected works of Joseph Vissarionovich or newspaper archives. You are tormented, and to no avail. Since the above quote is nothing more than ... the title of one of the sections of the materials of the Commission for the Rehabilitation of “Victims political repressions in the USSR ". Only the signature of the executive secretary, a certain Mr. Naumov, appears under this opus. Did he personally decide that the Supreme Commander had sealed all the captured Red Army men with such terrible words, with a sentence, in fact? Or are they fabrications of someone else from the Commission members, or even the fruit of their collective "creativity"? This science, alas, is unknown.

So, did Stalin not speak out at all about those who were captured by Hitler? Well, how - of course he could not keep silent on this tragic topic. That's just what they said was something completely different. The Commander-in-Chief in his words glorified the “Russian soldier,” who “always stands to his death.” A consciously chosen prisoner on the battlefield, according to Stalin, was simply “expelled from the Russian community”! The leader in this case operated on moral and ethical categories, even, rather, spiritual ones. And it’s not at all purely legal formulations: “treason” and “betrayal”, regarding which at that time there were corresponding (and very unpleasant) articles in the Criminal Code. Which, of course, fundamentally changes the matter and completely knocks the soil from under the feet of those who to this day continue to prove with foam at the mouth that "Stalin doomed millions of prisoners of war to the agony of the Gulag with one phrase." This was not ...

The situation is similar in approximately the same way with another “quote”, on the basis of which our liberals wage their endless drive for “a war won at an exorbitant price”, repeating their famous: “they filled up with corpses. The point, of course, is that the tragedy is the death of one person, and the death of millions is already turning into statistics. Do you really think this is a Stalinist quote ?! We read the classics, gentlemen! This phrase belongs to none other than Erich Maria Remarque and it sounds in his novel dedicated to the horrors of the First World War - “The Black Obelisk”. Those interested can easily find it in the text. Stalin did not say anything like this ever. However, why bother searching for real sources for the gentlemen of the "democrats"? It’s much simpler and more profitable for them to continue stubbornly trying to prove that it was precisely because of this unsubdued attitude towards soldiers and officers that Stalin and Zhukov with vampire cruelty and cynicism “drove” all five military regiments, divisions and entire armies to the slaughter years.

In general, arguing with the liberal public about Stalin is like trying to play cards with a gang of professional cheaters, and even their speckled deck. Well, who should be to say: “The elections in the USSR have always been dishonest, since Stalin believed that it doesn’t matter how the people vote - it is important who and how they vote” Didn't Joseph Vissarionovich say this? That's just the point, that said! With only one "small" addition: "This is what happens in bourgeois countries." And, most interestingly, the Generalissimo in this case just took advantage of the quote. For the first time in the world this frivolous "electoral formula" was derived and voiced by Napoleon III, Emperor of France, speaking out about the next plebiscite held in this country, which always boasted of its democracy.

That’s how it was created in approximately the same way - at first under the scoundrel Khrushchev, and, later, in the bad “perestroika” years, the myth of Stalin sewn with white thread: a near and bloodthirsty executioner and tyrant, who had nothing human in his soul, and indeed, probably devoid of the soul itself. Tearing words out of context, distorting the meaning and essence that Joseph Vissarionovich put into them to the exact opposite, ascribing other people's thoughts to him - these are vile devices of the “anti-Stalinists”. Well, even when they do not help, the last resort remains - simply come up with a “quote”! Yes, not exchanging trifles at the same time, but putting something really chilling in the mouth of the hated Leader, which definitely turns him into the embodiment of Evil.

The time has come to deal with one of the main "black myths" - the "Stalinist" principle: "No man - no problem." There was no such principle. And Stalin never said such words. In this case, we are dealing with completely one hundred percent falsification, moreover, having a very specific author who proudly admitted his own lies. We are talking about the writer Anatoly Rybakov - the creator of one of the most anti-Stalinist literary works of the time of the "perestroika", the pseudo-historical libel "Children of the Arbat". This fake, published in 1987, without exaggeration, has become one of the cornerstones of the vile campaign to denigrate the past of the Soviet Union, which directly worked for its final destruction. It is enough to mention that Gorbachev personally “pushed” the manuscript into the press, and the most laudatory comments about this “masterpiece” belong to US President Ronald Reagan. By the way, another "venerable dissident" from literature, Joseph Brodsky publicly called Rybakov’s cooking "waste paper" ...

So - there are written memoirs of one of the “perestroika publicists”, Valery Lebedev, about how, ten years after the novel was published, Rybakov, who by that time appeared to be a resident of New York Manhattan, boasted to him that he had simply invented, or as he himself claimed, he “composed” this truly cannibalistic wording by putting it into Stalin’s mouth in his own “literary” mishap. Moreover, he terribly lamented that “no one knows, no one remembers” about this. But the phrase, according to Rybakov and others like him, “unusually accurately conveyed the spirit of that era and the Stalinist approach to people”! He, you know, was proud that he "guessed the psychology of Stalin better than any Freud." A complete clinic, in my opinion ...

Stalin actually owns a huge number of sayings that have become truly winged. Witty, deep, sometimes shocking descendants with their rigidity and utter candor of the word of a great man who ruled a great country in a truly great time. Concluding the conversation about this part of Stalin’s legacy, it remains only to recall his real quote - prophetic words about a pile of garbage that will be put on his grave. And about the wind of time by which this garbage will be mercilessly swept away ...