Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich

Lazar Kaganovich (in Russian Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович), Lazar' Moiseevič Kaganovič, (22 November 1893 {November 10 O.S.} – 25 July 1991), was a Soviet politician and administrator.

Quotes

Without Stalin’s politics, we would never have achieved anything, we would all have died.

• Every time they say that what's happening in the country is... Stalin's fault. It's the moral of every speech: Stalin's guilty, it was Stalin, Stalin, Stalin, everyone against him. But Stalin died 35 years ago! 35 years! What does that have to do with today's troubles?
  • Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica

• First, Stalin is disowned, now, little by little, it gets to prosecute socialism, the October Revolution, and in no time they will also want to prosecute Lenin and Marx.
  • Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica

• Iosif Vissarionovich was a really cautious man. Really cautious. A man who could see far.
  • Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica

• Without Stalin's politics, we would never have achieved anything, we would all have died.
  • Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica

External links