Our verdict of the liberal bastard who destroyed our Socialist Fatherland

Stalin: “I would like to say a few words, perhaps not festive.

Russian tsars have done a lot of bad things. They robbed and enslaved people. They waged wars and seized territories in the interests of landowners.

But they did one good thing - they created a huge state, right up to Kamchatka. We have inherited this state. And for the first time, we Bolsheviks have consolidated and strengthened this state as a single and indivisible state, not in the interests of landowners and capitalists, but in favor of the workers, all the people who make up this state.

We have united the state in such a way that if any part of it were isolated from the general socialist state, it would not only harm the latter, but this part would be unable to exist independently and would inevitably fall under foreign dominion.

Therefore, whoever tries to destroy the unity of the socialist state, whoever seeks the ways of separating any of its parts or nationalities, this person is an enemy, an archenemy of the state and peoples of the USSR.

And we will destroy every such enemy, even if he were an old Bolshevik; we will destroy his entire family, his entire family.

We will mercilessly destroy anyone who, through his deeds or his thoughts — yes, his thoughts — threatens the unity of the socialist state.

For the complete destruction of all enemies, themselves and their kind! ”

(Applauses of approval: Glory to the great Stalin!)

November 7, 1937. Government reception. Toast I.V. Stalin, preserved by George Dimitrov in his diary.


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