Joseph Stalin Quotes
I trust no one, not even myself.
Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, Russian Premier, Remark to Nikita Khrushchev and Anastas Mikoyan, quoted in "Khrushchev: Notes from a Forbidden Land", Time, 30 November 1970
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This was the group that decided who was to be executed in the Reign of Terror
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and the ruler of the Soviet Union from 1927 until 1953. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he ultimately consolidated power to become the Soviet Union's de facto dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalized these ideas as Marxism–Leninism while his own policies are known as Stalinism.