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QUIZ: Which Terrifying Political Voice Said It? Trump, Stalin, Hitler or Mussolin? (Original Post) RKP5637 Jun 2016 OP
15 of 15 . . . Journeyman Jun 2016 #1
Yep, Definitely! n/t RKP5637 Jun 2016 #4
14/15 - at least one is a trick question MillennialDem Jun 2016 #5
I wonder why Mao is always left out. braddy Jun 2016 #2
Seems he should have been included. n/t RKP5637 Jun 2016 #3

Journeyman

(15,023 posts)
1. 15 of 15 . . .
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 04:35 PM
Jun 2016

There are vast differences between these men, easily seen when viewed beyond the superficial.

 

MillennialDem

(2,367 posts)
5. 14/15 - at least one is a trick question
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 05:01 PM
Jun 2016
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

In her review "Mustering Most Memorable Quips" of Konstantin Dushenko's 1997 Dictionary of Modern Quotations (Словарь современных цитат: 4300 ходячих цитат и выражений ХХ века, их источники, авторы, датировка , Julia Solovyova states: "Russian historians have no record of the lines, 'Death of one man is a tragedy. Death of a million is a statistic,' commonly attributed by English-language dictionaries to Josef Stalin." [2]
This quotation may originate from "Französischer Witz" (1925) by Kurt Tucholsky: "Darauf sagt ein Diplomat vom Quai d'Orsay: «Der Krieg? Ich kann das nicht so schrecklich finden! Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!»" ("To which a Quai d'Orsay diplomat replies: «The war? I can't find it so terrible! The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!»&quot
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