Mind-blowing quotes from historical figures

This one from Hitler blew me the fuck out and almost made me tear up:

"Compared with Churchill, Stalin is a gigantic figure," confided Hitler to Goebbels on the eve of the battle of Stalingrad.

"Churchill has nothing to show for his life's work except a few books and clever speeches in parliament."

"Stalin on the other hand has without a doubt - leaving aside the question of what principle he was serving- reorganised a state of 170 million people and prepared it for a massive armed conflict."

"If Stalin ever fell into my hands, I would probably spare him and perhaps even exile him to some spa; Churchill and Roosevelt would be hanged."

Source: "Stalin's Wars" by Geoffrey Roberts, pg 373

Why does that crap make you tear up? It's butthurt ramblings of a pathetic dipshit.

The more time goes on, the more I get the impression that Hitler and Stalin would have been friends had Germany been able to retake her 1917 borders without war with Russia. I heard a story where Stalin would often pound his head on his desk and say "Hitler, think of what we could have done together."

War is such a depressing thing.

>that time Stalin's daughter went to a party at Beria's but it turned out she was the only one invited and he kept making increasingly hysterical phone calls asking if she was raped yet until she came home

"The nature of Christ’s existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it and the world is an explicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.I know men, and I tell you that Jesus is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions, that resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and other religions, the distance of infinity.I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him."
Don't want religion in this but napoleon's quote on Jesus is pretty interesting

He didn't realize the Anglos had decoded his enigma machine and were supplying Stalin through the back door.

“The Jesuits…are simply the Romish army for the earthly sovereignty of the world in the future, with the Pontiff of Rome for emperor…that’s their ideal. …It is simple lust of power, of filthy earthly gain, of domination – something like a universal serfdom with them [i.e., the Jesuits] as masters – that’s all they stand for. They don’t even believe in God .”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)

>went from hobo to leader of an empire
>pathetic dipshit

I guess Hitler wasn't anti-communist.

>"And we will build a world together, Standing strong forever"

"Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life" - Bertrand Russell

What if the whites defeated the (((Reds))) and eternally btfo the kikes through the power of NazBol?

Cliche ones, but I love when marx gets more poetic.

>Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. Thus Luther put on the mask of the Apostle Paul, the Revolution of 1789-1814 draped itself alternately in the guise of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and the Revolution of 1848 knew nothing better to do than to parody, now 1789, now the revolutionary tradition of 1793-95.

>Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

No way he's that dumb

>At a time when Germans would listen to anyone saying it wasn't their fault they lost

:^)

Was the Berlin-Moscow Axis possible?

They would've went commie if they would listen to anyone.

Freikorps fucked them up before Hitler was even a leader of the DAP

National socialism + socialism in one country

Let's forget our differences Kammeraden! We can make this work.

My dream is a Strasser led Germany and Bukharin led SU.

"It is not neccessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere."
generic as fuck but my boy charles said it so its automatically mindblowing tbqh

Eh, Strasser was way to collectivist.

>"Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love"
>burns a pagan temple
>rapes priestesses
>beheads people for refusing baptism
On peace indeed

True Christianity has never been tried

As much as you'd like to talk down on him, people still remember his name 70 years after his death, unlike you, who will die alone and be forgotten.

People remember john wilkes booth too

this one always inspires me. Gives me hope that the future can change in an instant

>It's just civilians who armed themselves.

>Churchill
>5'6"
>Stalin
>5'6"
>Harry Truman once commented in Life "I was surprised at Stalin's stature - he was not over 5 feet 5 or 6 inches tall. When we had pictures taken, he would usually stand on the step above me. Churchill would do the same thing."
Wow this Hitler guy was fucking stupid

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I like this one too

Did Stalin speak English ?

Why would Truman lie on the internet? They just shopped the boxes out.

He was having trouble with Russian. I doubt he knew any English or other foreign languages.

/ourguy/

Why didn't Stalin simply have Beria killed after that? Going after the boss's daughter is a step too far.

>Women also submitted to Beria's sexual advances in exchange for the promise of freeing their relatives from the Gulag. In one case, Beria picked up Tatiana Okunevskaya – a well-known Soviet actress – under the pretence of bringing her to perform for the Politburo. Instead he took her to his dacha where he offered to free her father and grandmother from NKVD prison if she submitted. He then raped her telling her "scream or not, it doesn't matter."[47] Yet Beria already knew her relatives had been executed months earlier. Okunevskaya was arrested shortly afterwards and sentenced to solitary confinement in the Gulag from which she survived.
the absoloute mad man

I'm glad that asshole got shot after Stalin's death

and why shouldn't they? he killed that fucking tyrant
rahowa

I can't vouch for the source but it amuses me so fuck it.

>"If Stalin ever fell into my hands, I would probably spare him and perhaps even exile him to some spa; Churchill and Roosevelt would be hanged."
but Stormfront told me that Hitler wanted peace with Britain and hated Bolshevism????

this quote unironically inspired me because I assumed it was from like 1944 or 45 until I got to the end of it and read the date

>but Stormfront told me that Hitler wanted peace with Britain and hated Bolshevism????
that's true,if you deny this, you're a fucking kike

Why can't you appreciate an interesting Hitler quote without being an unhinged hysteric? Are you Jewish?

His poems are even worse.

But he's the only one that could secure a true alliance with the SU.

Also, Hitler's economic policies only worked because he used literal scams to fund the economy.

Well they were the only two rulers of the only two totalitarian states to ever exist.
I suppose it's an exclusive club.