Joseph Stalin

As J. V. Stalin stated in his reply to a Pravda correspondent on the subject of atomic weapons, what they really want is the legalization of the right of the warmong

namely, the organization of a permanent international armed force. As early as 1917 this idea was invoked by President Wilson. In 1944 Generalissimo Stalin stated that “the body whose duty it is to prevent war could have at its disposal adequate forces capable of being brought into action immediately.” T

eks later, on September the 17th, the Soviet Union also invaded our country – as the ally of Nazi Germany fulfilling the agreement between Hitler and Stalin, so called Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. Both aggressors deprived us of our independence. Poland found itself in the midst of a brutal occupation of two t

er 1939. we received a blow from another direction: the Soviet Union also made an onslaught on Poland. In the wake of the alliance between Hitler and Stalin — Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia — Poland lost its independence, was wiped off the world map and subjected to an extremely brutal occupation. That is

o fight for life, just as they courageously and selflessly fought together against the Nazis during the Second World War, in particular in Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin. It is important to consider the young people of both countries and the fate of future generations. It is time to fight for pea

n the twenty-first century from knowingly and cynically causing an artificial famine in the name of achieving their political goals, the way in which Stalin did back in the 1930s. In that context, it is of key importance that, on 22 July in Istanbul, Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements with Turk

Likewise, they could have drawn inspiration from the model of cooperation established during the Second World War by the “Big Three” — Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill — who forged arrangements that significantly narrowed opportunities for great Powers to wage wars against each other. Nonet

f the summit was achieved with a historic allocation of special drawing rights to the tune of $650 billion. I applaud the diligent approach of Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, in the implementation of that consensual decision. Africa was able to receive a sha

ted in our difficult history. Lithuania suffered painful losses during the two World Wars. It experienced two brutal totalitarian regimes, Nazism and Stalinism. After regaining independence almost 30 years ago, we rebuilt our democratic State institutions, created an effective market economy and joined th

f the Second World War, which began with an attack on Poland by two totalitarian States and two criminal ideologies, German Nazi Hitlerism and Soviet Stalinist communism. The Second World War, which violated the fundamental rights of nations and States to self-determination, claimed nearly 18 million vict

ry of one of the deadliest crimes of the twentieth century — that of the Holodomor, which saw mass starvation in Ukraine, artificially created by the Stalinist regime. It took the lives of several million Ukrainians. In that regard, I would like to renew my appeal to the Assembly to mark one of the greate

Russian disregard of its international obligations. It must keep a close eye on Crimea to prevent a new genocide inspired by the modern proponents of Stalin’s totalitarian ideology against the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians. I rely on the support of delegations here for Ukraine’s initiatives to ensure the

weapons. We need to reconfirm rather than renegotiate the principles of international order. As the Vice-President of the European Commission, Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, stressed during the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, we need a step change in the way we address humanitarian crises by looking mor

cceed where the League of Nations once failed. Let us not forget that 75 years ago, on 23 August 1939, a pact was signed between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to divide Eastern Europe into their spheres of influence. A week later, on 1 September, Hitler attacked Poland.

e years ago, the decay of the international system proved fatal to the Baltic States. Two totalitarian regimes — one under Hitler and the other under Stalin — divided Europe, and we lost our freedom for 50 long years. Twenty-five years ago, more than 2 million people joined hands and formed a human chain

Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, came to my country in July 2013 and visited th

ee Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. That event was dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Stalinist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The Pact was another mile marker leading to the Second World War and the occupation of the three Baltic States. The

dozens of other nations. We invite a joint commemoration of each national tragedy and no toleration of new attempts to create a heroic aureole around Stalin and his regime. We have invaluable examples of mutual understanding with Poland, Hungary and other States. Honest and sincere memories about the past

st traumatic moments. The Second World War was barely over, its aftershocks were still strongly felt, and much of the world was physically destroyed. Stalinist oppression was the dominant feature of the Soviet Union and of a large part of Europe. In Asia and Africa, large populations suffered under the yo

family, including my own. Twenty thousand innocent souls a day, half a million a month, 10 million altogether were taken as part of the death toll of Stalin’s favoured ethnic policy. The Ukrainian Government will never tire until it makes the international community abandon hypocrisy and finally recognize

odium, Armenians have occupied those lands for over 2,000 years, and not just the last 10. Today, Nagorno-Karabakh has reversed the injustice done by Stalin back in the mid-1920s. It is free, democratic and tolerant of minorities. Nagorno- Karabakh holds regular elections, has State and security structure

de through the years to obliterate the distinctive identities of peoples living under certain regimes - as in the case of the Soviet Union during the Stalin era - those identities have resurfaced, as have the problems which resulted from the attempt at their suppression. If Lebanon were an almost unique c

a major role in the post-war world. Churchill’s insistence on including France among the elite group was met with similar scepticism by Roosevelt and Stalin. It will be even more difficult to decide who belongs to the new elite. The end of the cold war took everyone by surprise and was far from clear-cut

olitical and other eventful changes taking place in Russia are transforming that country, currently in the throes of dramatic upheaval, from a former Stalinist threat to international peace and order into, we hope, a constructive component of global order built on new foundations of equality and partnersh

beaten because they sought freedom. They had gathered to commemorate the day in 1939 when, the Second World War having already begun, Hitler sold to Stalin the as yet unconquered land of Lithuania with all its people and all their rights. Almost half a century later, in 1988, no more rights had been secu

dentally, have not been defined. There are no internal borders in the unitary Azerbaijani State. The region was split off administratively during the Stalin era, and it is the Armenian side that is so fervently demanding the elimination of the legacy of that time.

and to ensure stability and peace in their society. Democratic Ukraine will do justice to the millions who fell victim to famine and terror under the Stalinist regime by ensuring that social and national oppression and the abuse of human dignity never recur. Independent Ukraine will cherish the memory of

war, these three countries were quickly and silently erased from the world map. Hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings were lost to Nazi and Stalinist terror, and the hands of the clock of progress stopped. In the years that followed, our people vigorously resisted foreign rule. For nine years af

ithuania as new Members of the United Nations. They had lost their freedom and independence in 1940 as a result of that criminal document, the Hitler-Stalin pact. All the greater, therefore, is the pleasure felt by us Germans at the fact that history has at long last justly rewarded these courageous peopl

e economic, legal and ecological space. This has become an extremely up-to-date and fashionable expression. Yet, half a century ago, in the heyday of Stalin's tyranny, the great Russian poet, Boris Pasternak, used it to describe an artist's calling! "We have to live without vainglory Live in such a way th

on "the lungs" of humankind, and of Europe in particular. It is its very recidivism that makes Croatia cough blood now. It is the repugnant virus of Stalinism that caused Yugoslavia to become the sick man of Europe and Kosova its guilty conscience. Had Europe and the rest of Yugoslavia, where the winds o

empires of the last century, namely, that put together by the Russian Tsars. That system, which was transformed into a communist empire by Lenin and Stalin, is now smashed for good - and smashed not by its critics or competitors from outside but by the peoples whom it sought to imprison. That old system

elds. "Belgium welcomes with satisfaction the regained independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. My country never recognized their annexation by Stalin's Soviet Union. We are particularly proud that we were able to contribute to the establishment of a Baltic information centre in Brussels and that we

ing up into two parts for almost 20 years the war-ravaged, bleeding land of Belarus. Thus it was in January 1945 at Yalta, where the ruthless hand of Stalin laid hold of the map and manipulated the destinies of hundreds of thousands of Belarusians. We do not want to be a shadow of our neighbours; we do no

rian Parliament is also expected to pass a privatisation act; a land law that would return to its owners the land forcibly taken from then during the Stalinist collectivisation drive; laws on property, banking and trade; and numerous other laws, mere limited in scope, that should provide the legal basis f

f the East-Central European region, the bipolar system laid down after Yalta has collapsed. The peoples of Central Europe have finally got rid of the Stalinist Party-State dictatorship, so alien to the traditions of European development, and have set themselves the aim of establishing a form of State with

ever higher levels are doomed to passivity, rigidity and ultimately to extinction. Many dictators have terrorised peoples in this century; there were Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, there were numbers of others in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In the end, they always led their countries to failure and defeat

narmed, facing impossible odds, they held out against the German army for one whole month. At that time, von Paulus' army had already been crushed at Stalingrad, Rommel had been defeated in the Western Desert and Allied armies had landed in North Africa. Allied forces were bombing the cities of Germany by

iddle East. In this decade we have watched and applauded as General Secretary Gorbachev has tried to move the Soviet Union away from a Kafkaesque and Stalinist society to a country of glasnost and perestroika, as if saying "let there be light", and taking the accent away from forced collectivisation and "

ld War. That war began in and against Poland as a result of aggression committed by the Nazi Government of Germany and executed in collusion with the Stalinist Government of the Soviet Union. At the same time those two Governments concluded a series of agreements that provided for the partition of Poland

He championed the cause of non-alignment from the tribune of the United Nations in 1952, at a time when Stalinism and United States imperialism did not even respect the legitimacy of non-alignment, The coup engineered by the Central Intelligence Agency against

when the leaders of the Soviet Union abandoned the just anti-imperialist policy that had been followed in the post-war years under the leadership of Stalin, the Warsaw Pact, too, was transformed into an aggressive alliance, and the countries and peoples of Europe found themselves confronted with a fresh

s in Korea and in the Congo. 36. The whole of progressive mankind recalls with admiration the heroic struggle which, under the direction of the great Stalin, the Soviet Union waged, in cooperation with the AngloAmerican coalition, to defend the peaceful peoples and countries against Hitlerite Germany. The

rificial resolve of the people of Palestine to regain their homeland. 14. Neither the late Mr. Churchill nor the late Mr. Roosevelt, nor the late Mr. Stalin for that matter, considered the nazi conquest of European territories as a fait accompli. can assure the General Assembly that the occupation of Pale

-determination of peoples, and non-intervention.” 22. However, it was all to no avail; the monolithic integrity of communist doctrine as conceived by Stalin had to be upheld; deviationism and the infiltration of a certain Western-style liberalism had to be repelled and the strategic outposts guarding the

of war, inasmuch as the reaction to this division will inevitably be the awakening of an insurgent national consciousness. 9. In a letter to Marshal Stalin dated 29 April 1945, Winston Churchill wrote: "There is not much comfort in looking into a future where you and the countries you dominate, plus the

ought in the skies over Britain until the invading air armadas were turned back, while the indomitable legions of the Soviet Army fought on and on at Stalingrad until at last they broke the back of the Nazi threat to the Russian homeland. 127. All through the years we have been taught again and again that

mpulsory labour, which has reduced human beings to the level of animals. But this cannot happen to a band of fanatics whose faith in Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism knows no bounds and who are convinced that the economic system they have devised will ensure not only rapid industrialization but also the perpetu

oach on Mr. Gromyko's preserve, but so too, I believe, do the younger generation of Russians. If they have thrown off the physical terror and yoke of Stalin, they are not going to be content very much longer to be bound with the intellectual fetters of Marx.

ite sure—and we say this quite clearly—that, if they try to repeat the "Drang nach Osten", it will be measured not by the distance between Berlin and Stalingrad; it will be buried on the threshold of its own home. 235.