“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.” Joseph Stalin

A disembodied statue of Joseph Stalin’s head on the streets of Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution, 1956

Source

Joseph Stalin
Former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian ethnicity. Governing the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, he served as General Secretary of … Wikipedia
Born: December 18, 1878, Gori, Georgia
Died: March 5, 1953, Kuntsevo Dacha
Height: 1.68 m
Full name: Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Children: Svetlana Alliluyeva, Vasily Stalin, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Artyom Sergeyev, Konstantin Kuzakov

Quotes
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.