Joseph Stalin is a Sri Lankan trade unionist. As of 2022, serving as general secretary of the Ceylon Teachers' Union. He has led campaigns against the militarisation of education in Sri Lanka. Early life Stalin was born in the 1960s, the son of an activist in the Ceylon Communist Party (Peking Wing). He was named after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. CTU General Secretary In 2020, he opposed moves by the Sri Lankan government to convert schools into COVID-19 isolation centres. Later that year, he spoke out against the creation of a Director General – Sports position in the Ministry of Education, saying that the government was "attempting to undermine the education system by appointing unqualified people to high posts." In July 2021, he was arrested by police along with ten other demonstrators after protesting against the National Defence University Bill, a proposed law that human rights activists raised concerns would militarise universities in Sri Lanka. After two weeks of detention, he was released.

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“As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia.”
— from "The Social-Democratic View of the National Question", 1904 (aged 26)
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.”
— Speech at The Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. (December 1926)
“Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division, and from the antagonism between poor and rich, means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.”
— Interview with H. G. Wells (September 1937)
“You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.”
— A teenaged Stalin to a fellow student while studying to become a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, as quoted in Landmarks in the Life of Stalin (1942) by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, p. 9
“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”
— As quoted in The Memoirs of Stalin's former secretary (1992) by Boris Bazhanov [Saint Petersburg] (in Russian)
“Stop sending assassins to murder me... if this doesn't stop, I will send a man to Moscow and there'll be no need to send any more.”
— Attributed to Tito in "Stalin : Court of the Red Czar" by Simon Sebag-Montefiore, but the ultimate source is Roy Medvedev, who quotes the story in several different versions.

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Notable quotes

“As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia.”
— from "The Social-Democratic View of the National Question", 1904 (aged 26)
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.”
— Speech at The Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. (December 1926)
“Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division, and from the antagonism between poor and rich, means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.”
— Interview with H. G. Wells (September 1937)
“You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.”
— A teenaged Stalin to a fellow student while studying to become a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, as quoted in Landmarks in the Life of Stalin (1942) by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, p. 9
“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”
— As quoted in The Memoirs of Stalin's former secretary (1992) by Boris Bazhanov [Saint Petersburg] (in Russian)
“Stop sending assassins to murder me... if this doesn't stop, I will send a man to Moscow and there'll be no need to send any more.”
— Attributed to Tito in "Stalin : Court of the Red Czar" by Simon Sebag-Montefiore, but the ultimate source is Roy Medvedev, who quotes the story in several different versions.

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Joseph Stalin is a Sri Lankan trade unionist. As of 2022, serving as general secretary of the Ceylon Teachers' Union. He has led campaigns against the militarisation of education in Sri Lanka. Early life Stalin was born in the 1960s, the son of an activist in the Ceylon Communist Party (Peking Wing). He was named after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. CTU General Secretary In 2020, he opposed moves by the Sri Lankan government to convert schools into COVID-19 isolation centres. Later that year, he spoke out against the creation of a Director General – Sports position in the Ministry of Education, saying that the government was "attempting to undermine the education system by appointing unqualified people to high posts." In July 2021, he was arrested by police along with ten other demonstrators after protesting against the National Defence University Bill, a proposed law that human rights activists raised concerns would militarise universities in Sri Lanka. After two weeks of detention, he was released.

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Joseph Stalin is a Sri Lankan trade unionist. As of 2022, serving as general secretary of the Ceylon Teachers' Union. He has led campaigns against the militarisation of education in Sri Lanka.