"He was an outstanding person impressing our severe time of the period
in which his life elapsed. Stalin was a man of exceptional energy,
erudition and unbending willpower, harsh, strict and relentless as in
work, so in talk, whom even I, educated in English parliament, could not
oppose in any way.... In his works gigantic strength was resounded. In
Stalin this strength was so great that he seemed unique among the
leaders of all times and peoples.... His influence on people was
irresistible. When he entered the hall of the Yalta Conference, all of
us stood up as if at someone's command. A strange thing is that we stood
at attention. Stalin possessed profound, logical and intelligent wisdom
devoid of any panic. He was a peerless master able to find, at a
difficult moment, a way out of the most hopeless situation.... This was
a man who destroyed his enemy with the hands of his enemies, and forced
us, whom he openly called imperialists, to fight against
imperialists.... He took over Russia with a wooden plough, but left it
equipped with atomic weapons"
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