Men are things that think a little but chiefly forget. War is frightful and unnatural weariness, water up to the belly, mud and dung and infamous filth. You've got to remember that this morning there's three thousand kilometers of equal evils, or nearly equal, or worse. 1 - The Vision It's with us only that they make battles. Le Feu : journal d'une escouade (1915 - 1916) translated by Fitzwater Wray as Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (1917) Full text online Ch. Under Fire (1916) Two armies at death-grips - that is one great army committing suicide. But one may also say that it is in Stalin more than anyone else that the thoughts and words of Lenin are to be found. Wherever there are revolutionaries, there is Lenin. The dead do not survive except upon earth.About Joseph Stalin, Stalin: A New World Seen Through One Man (1935), p.His power lies in his formidable intelligence, the breadth of his knowledge, the amazing orderliness of his mind, his passion for precision, his inexorable spirit of progress, the rapidity, sureness and intensity of his decisions, and his constant care to choose the right men. He is as strong and yet as flexible as steel. The name by which he is known describes it: the word Stalin means "steel" in Russian. Since 1917, not a single year of his career has passed without his having done something which would have made any other man famous. His history is a series of victories over a series of tremendous difficulties.
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