50 years ago, a steel man died today
Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin) 1878-1953
So today marks Stalin's death's 50th anniversary.
Notable quotes include:
The Onion's Our Dumb Century:
"Soviets Mourn Loss of Stalin: 'Who Will Crush Our Spirits and Destroy Our Will to Live Now?' Ask Distraught Citizens."
"Winston Churchill recalled, 'Stalin made a very great impression on us.... When he entered the conference room at Yalta everybody stood up as if at a word of command. And, strange to tell, for some reason stood with their hands along the seams of their trousers.' Churchill also said that on one occasion he was determined not to stand up, but when Stalin entered it was as if some extraterrestrial force lifted him from his seat."
-Edvard Radzinsky. Stalin. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.
So today marks Stalin's death's 50th anniversary.
Notable quotes include:
The Onion's Our Dumb Century:
"Soviets Mourn Loss of Stalin: 'Who Will Crush Our Spirits and Destroy Our Will to Live Now?' Ask Distraught Citizens."
"Winston Churchill recalled, 'Stalin made a very great impression on us.... When he entered the conference room at Yalta everybody stood up as if at a word of command. And, strange to tell, for some reason stood with their hands along the seams of their trousers.' Churchill also said that on one occasion he was determined not to stand up, but when Stalin entered it was as if some extraterrestrial force lifted him from his seat."
-Edvard Radzinsky. Stalin. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.