| There was the curious fact that whereas Hitler began as a competent strategist and ended as a rotten one, with Stalin it was the other way round. |
| Under Stalin, and after, Soviet newspapers tended to exhort rather than inform, but perceptive readers could read between the lines. |
| Yet almost everything he wrote about Stalin's Soviet Union takes the form of adulatory, gushing hymns to Stalin. |
| One of the quotes which was repeatedly cited by Stalin concerned the difference drawn by Marx between socialism and communism. |
| As Hitler's imminent demise was scented, Stalin rose to new heights of prestige at home and abroad. |
| Any idea that Stalin cared for public opinion in Russia is merely laughable. |
