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pianoplayingsteve Is it disappointing to learn that Stalin never said anything close to that??
Members of an editorial board for the Stalin Digital Archive, a database of documents and images that resulted from a collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History and Yale University Press, have told us that they don’t think Stalin said this, or anything close to it.
J. Arch Getty, a history professor at UCLA, said he wasn’t aware of any original source for the quote.
"In my extensive archival research in Stalin’s personal archive, I found nothing like this," Getty said. "There are many apocryphal quotes wrongly attributed to Stalin and I think this is one of them."
"Almost certainly apocryphal," agreed James Harris, a senior lecturer in modern European history at the University of Leeds in England.
"Many things that are attributed to Stalin are false," warned Ron Suny, a professor of social and political history at the University of Michigan.
And is it also disappointing to learn that you took Biden completely out of context??
In July, for example, Biden said: "It’s no longer just who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. It’s about who gets to count the vote — who gets to count whether or not your vote counted at all. It’s about moving from independent election administrators who work for the people to polarized state legislatures and partisan actors who work for political parties. To me, this is simple. This is election subversion. It’s the most dangerous threat to voting and the integrity of free and fair elections in our history. Never before have they decided who gets to count — count — what votes count."
