Mikhail Kalinin Quotes
November 19 [O.S. November 7] 1875 – June 3, 1946
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You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.
Mikhail Kalinin— To Red Army political agitators, May 19, 1943. Quoted in "Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics" - Page 109 - by Steven Merritt Miner - History - 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— Quoted in "The Affirmative Action Empire" - Page 147 - by Terry Martin - Political Science - 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— Quoted in "Inside the Middle East" - Page 232 - by Dilip Hiro - History - 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— Closing speech after the formation of the USSR by the Unification Congress. Quoted in "Survivor From An Unknown War: The Life of Isakjan Narzikul" - Page 3 - by Stephen Lee Crane - 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— August 1945. Quoted in "The Soviet Union Since World War II" - Page 4 - by American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philip Edward Mosely - History - 1949
