Interesting how if an entire orphanage burned down with all the kids inside, people probably would only talk about it for like a week or so, but when a celebrity dies people are going on for months. If Kobe Bryant Legends Are Forever Los Angeles 8 24 Shirt. There was a book I read with a quote “One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic”. Actually it is first quoted in an article by Leonard Lyons in 1947 who was a syndicalist and a writer for the Washington Post there is no actual record of Stalin saying this. It is more likely Leonard drew inspiration from Death: A poetical essay by Beilby Porteus published in 1759. Where he writes “One murder made a villain, millions a hero”. And later goes on with “princes were privileged, to kill. Numbers sanctified the crime.”. There is also the possibility that the quote is drawn from the German satirist. Journalist Kurt Tucholsky who wrote in 1925 “Der Tod Menschen: das ist Katastrophe.

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Hunderttausend Tote: das ist Statistik!” This translates to “The death of one man, that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths. That is a statistic.” The same year as Leonard published his Kobe Bryant Legends Are Forever Los Angeles 8 24 Shirt. Where he paraphrased Porteus saying the line “one murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify”. In Lyons’s article, he stated that Stalin had uttered the words during a meeting with the highest-ranking commissars. One might wonder how an American journalist has knowledge. About what is said in the meetings between the highest-ranking officials of the Soviet Union. One of the most closed countries at the time. The conclusion Stalin most likely never said the words and Lyon just copied and rephrased cool quotes from old articles and books.

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I didn’t mention the reason why they got the nickname. Kobe Bryant Legends Are Forever Los Angeles 8 24 Shirt. Also in Russian Iron and Steel are interchangeable terms. Also, Stalin didn’t get it for his actions in office, but during his time in the Georgian mafia, before joining the bolsheviks. In the days when Stalin was Commissar of Munitions. And the principal matter for discussion was the famine then prevalent in Ukraine. One official arose and made a speech about this tragedy — the tragedy of having millions of people dying of hunger. He began to enumerate death figures … Stalin interrupted him to say: “If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics.”

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