About the book: 2013 / Dear readers. At your request, the publishing house “Piter” and I decided to make a series of books dedicated to geopolitics and the place of Russia in the modern world. This book contains articles and speeches by Stalin. Why? Stalin today is one of the most sought-after political figures. Interest in it is not decreasing, but, on the contrary, growing. Many of his statements sound surprisingly relevant. However, historians and politicians view Stalin differently. But what could be better than the original source itself? While writing the book “Stalin. Let's Remember Together” I read almost the entire collected works of Stalin and much more that was not included in it. This is how the idea for this collection was born. Take all the most interesting and important things that Stalin said and wrote and put them in one book. And to give the reader the opportunity to determine for himself his attitude towards this person and the time in which he acted. Therefore, in the book “Thus Spoke Stalin” I did not add a single word of my own. Only direct speech from Stalin. Read. Perhaps your assessment of what is happening will then change. After all, new facts give a new perspective. Sincerely, Nikolai Starikov