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Mikhail Kalinin Quotes

If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.

If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.

Mikhail Kalinin
Freedom, Democracy, Treats

You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.

Mikhail Kalinin
Fighting, Errors, Remember
"Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics" by Steven Merritt Miner, (p. 109), 2003.

The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which like a millstone grinds up all nationalities and forges a new nationality. This nationality is the universal proletariat.

Mikhail Kalinin
Way, Grind, Factories
"The Affirmative Action Empire" by Terry Martin, (p. 147), 2001.

The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.

Mikhail Kalinin
Strong, Groups, Teeth
"Inside the Middle East" by Dilip Hiro, (p. 232), 1982.

For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility, without the greatest of torment, without internecine strife, of living side by side in friendship and brotherhood. Practically speaking, the first step in this direction is only being taken now, today.

Mikhail Kalinin
Struggle, Taken, Years
"Survivor From An Unknown War: The Life of Isakjan Narzikul" by Stephen Lee Crane, (p. 3), 1999.

But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in the world. You will speak frankly about this to the collective farmers...Only the most concrete, most immediate danger, which threatened us from Hitlerite Germany, has disappeared.

Mikhail Kalinin
Country, Greatest Victory, Germany
"The Soviet Union Since World War II" by American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philip Edward Mosely, (p. 4), 1949.

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

Mikhail Kalinin
Essence, Class, Lenin And Stalin
"USSR Information Bulletin", (p. 322), 1942.

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