“You are wrong if you think that the Communists are enamoured of violence. They would be very pleased to drop violent methods if the ruling class agreed to give way to the working class. But the experience of history speaks against such an assumption.”
About Stalin
“By the way, as I was convinced during the war, J.V. Stalin was not at all the kind of man before whom one could not post sharp questions and with whom one could not argue, and even firmly defend one's own point of view. If someone says differently, then I tell you directly - their affirmations are not truthful.”
General Zhukov in his memoirs[1]
References
- ↑ Original quote in Russian:
Кстати сказать, как я убедился во время войны, И. В. Сталин вовсе не был таким человеком, перед которым нельзя было ставить острые вопросы и с которым нельзя было бы спорить и даже твердо отстаивать свою точку зрения. Если кто-либо утверждает обратное, прямо скажу - их утверждения не верны.