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Joseph Stalin

By: History.com Editors

Updated: April 25, 2023 | Original: November 12, 2009

Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. However, he ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign. Stalin became involved in revolutionary politics, as well as criminal activities, as a young man. After Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin died, Stalin outmaneuvered his rivals for control of the party. Stalin aligned with the United States and Britain in World War II but afterward engaged in an increasingly tense relationship with the West known as the Cold War . After his death, the Soviets initiated a de-Stalinization process.

Young Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili on December 18, 1878, or December 6, 1878, according to the Old Style Julian calendar (although he later invented a new birth date for himself: December 21, 1879). He grew up in the small town of Gori, Georgia, then part of the Russian empire. When he was in his 30s, he took the name Stalin, from the Russian for “man of steel.”

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Stalin grew up poor and an only child. His father was a shoemaker and an alcoholic who beat his son, and his mother was a laundress. As a boy, Stalin contracted smallpox , which left him with lifelong facial scars. As a teen, he earned a scholarship to attend a seminary in the nearby city of Tblisi and study for the priesthood in the Georgian Orthodox Church.

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While there he began secretly reading the work of German social philosopher and Communist Manifesto author Karl Marx , becoming interested in the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. In 1899, Stalin was expelled from the seminary for missing exams, although he claimed it was for Marxist propaganda.

After leaving school, Stalin became an underground political agitator, taking part in labor demonstrations and strikes. He adopted the name Koba, after a fictional Georgian outlaw-hero, and joined the more militant wing of the Marxist Social Democratic movement, the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin.

Stalin also became involved in various criminal activities, including bank heists, the proceeds from which were used to help fund the Bolshevik Party. He was arrested multiple times between 1902 and 1913, and subjected to imprisonment and exile in Siberia.

In 1906, Stalin married Ekaterina “Kato” Svanidze, a seamstress. The couple had one son, Yakov, who died as a prisoner in Germany during World War II. Ekaterina perished from typhus when her son was an infant.

In 1918 (some sources cite 1919), Stalin married his second wife, Nadezhda “Nadya” Alliluyeva, the daughter of a Russian revolutionary. They had two children, a boy and a girl (Stalin’s only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva , caused an international scandal when she defected to the United States in 1967). Nadezhda committed suicide in her early 30s. Stalin also fathered several children out of wedlock.

Rise to Power

In 1912, Lenin, who was then in exile in Switzerland, appointed Stalin to serve on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. Three years later, in November 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power during the Russian Revolution . The Soviet Union was founded in 1922, with Lenin as its first leader.

During these years, Stalin had continued to move up the party ladder, and in 1922 he became secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party , a role that enabled him to appoint his allies to government jobs and grow a base of political support.

After Lenin died in 1924, Stalin eventually outmaneuvered his rivals and won the power struggle for control of the Communist Party. By the late 1920s, he had become dictator of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union Under Stalin

Starting in the late 1920s, Joseph Stalin launched a series of five-year plans intended to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial superpower. His development plan was centered on government control of the economy and included the forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture, in which the government took control of farms.

Millions of farmers refused to cooperate with Stalin’s orders and were shot or exiled as punishment, particularly the kulaks, the more-prosperous farmers who owned land and hired paid workers. The forced collectivization soon led to widespread famine across the Soviet Union that killed millions.

Stalin ruled by terror, with a totalitarian grip in order to eliminate anyone who might oppose him. He expanded the powers of the secret police, encouraged citizens to spy on one another and had millions of people killed or sent to the Gulag system of forced labor camps.

During the second half of the 1930s, Stalin instituted the Great Purge , a series of campaigns designed to rid the Communist Party, the military and other parts of Soviet society from those he considered a threat.

Additionally, Stalin built a cult of personality around himself in the Soviet Union. Cities were renamed in his honor. Soviet history books were rewritten to give him a more prominent role in the revolution and mythologize other aspects of his life.

Stalin was the subject of flattering artwork, literature and music, and his name became part of the Soviet national anthem. He censored photographs in an attempt to rewrite history, removing former associates executed during his many purges. His government also controlled the Soviet media.

Joseph Stalin and World War II

In 1939, on the eve of World War II, Joseph Stalin and Germany’s Nazi Party dictator Adolf Hitler signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact . Stalin then proceeded to annex parts of Poland and Romania, as well as the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. He also launched an invasion of Finland.

Then, in June 1941, Germany broke the Nazi-Soviet pact and invaded the USSR, making significant early inroads. (Stalin had ignored warnings from the Americans and the British, as well as his own intelligence agents, about a potential invasion, and the Soviets were not prepared for war.)

As German troops approached the Soviet capital of Moscow, Stalin remained there and directed a scorched earth defensive policy, destroying any supplies or infrastructure that might benefit the enemy. The tide turned for the Soviets with the Battle of Stalingrad from August 1942 to February 1943, during which the Red Army defeated the Germans and eventually drove them from Russia.

As the war progressed, Stalin participated in the major Allied conferences, including the Tehran Conference (1943) and the Yalta Conference (1945). His iron will and deft political skills enabled him to play the loyal ally while never abandoning his vision of an expanded postwar Soviet empire.

Later Years

Joseph Stalin did not mellow with age: He initiated a reign of terror, purges, executions, exiles to labor camps and persecution in the postwar USSR, suppressing all dissent and anything that smacked of foreign–especially Western–influence.

He established communist governments throughout Eastern Europe, and in 1949 led the Soviets into the nuclear age by exploding an atomic bomb . In 1950, he gave North Korea’s communist leader Kim Il Sung permission to invade United States-supported South Korea , an event that triggered the Korean War .

How Did Joseph Stalin Die?

Stalin, who grew increasingly paranoid in his later years, died on March 5, 1953, at age 74, after suffering a stroke. His body was embalmed and preserved in Lenin’s mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square until 1961, when it was removed and buried near the Kremlin walls as part of the de-Stalinization process initiated by Stalin’s successor Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971).

How Many People Did Joseph Stalin Kill?

By some estimates, Joseph Stalin was responsible for the deaths of 6 million to 20 million people during his brutal rule, either though political executions or indirectly as a result of Stalin’s policies. The killings first began in the 1930s, as a wave of executions swept the Soviet Union during Stalin’s Great Purge.

“In some cases, a quota was established for the number to be executed, the number to be arrested,” said Stanford University history professor Norman Naimark in a 2010 interview. “Some officials overfulfilled as a way of showing their exuberance.”

Millions more were killed in the horrific famine that struck Ukraine in 1932-1933 and the Kazakh region from 1930 to 1933, as a of Stalin's cruel efforts to impose collectivism of agriculture and tamp down Ukrainian nationalism. Estimates vary, but about 4 million men, women and children are believed to have starved to death during the Holodomor (a combination of the Ukrainian words for “starvation” and “to inflict death”).

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Putin’s New Defense Minister Secretly Had Close Ties to Yevgeny Prigozhin—and Stalin

The wiry economist reportedly took a special interest in using private military companies to operate in “gray zones” where international law has collapsed.

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The wiry-looking economist with no military experience who Vladimir Putin has chosen to serve as his new defense minister is apparently a lot closer to the murky underworld of Russian security services than was originally thought.

Andrei Belousov was close to the late Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin —so close, according to a new report by opposition investigative reporting group Dossier Center , that the two were sometimes spotted “sitting with their arms around each other.”

A source told the outlet Belousov, who served as first deputy prime minister prior to his rise to defense minister, oversaw Prigozhin’s activities. The two are said to have spoken to each other like friends and “their work meetings were reminiscent of family get-togethers with tea; they informally discussed all the issues, then nodded to the junior employees, who then compiled everything into a real report.”

Meetings between Belousov and the mercenary boss were also noted in Prigozhin’s calendar, according to Dossier Center.

The newly appointed defense minister is said to have taken an interest in the use of private military companies , having reviewed a report on the development prospects of PMCs in 2018, when he was serving as a special assistant to Putin in economic affairs. The report touted private military companies like Wagner as a crucial new way to take on America and the U.K. as more and more of the world is marked by “gray zones,” areas where the report notes international law “doesn’t fully work” anymore.

It was not immediately clear who had written the report, or what Belousov’s ultimate role in reviewing it was. But the Kremlin’s growing empire of private military companies has been well-documented in recent years, with an explosion of little-known outfits secretly doing Moscow’s bidding while at the same time denying any government links. The war against Ukraine has only spawned more such units, with state corporations and regional leaders setting up their own private armies that ultimately answer to the Kremlin.

Belousov’s apparent interest in the topic perhaps comes as no surprise, as his grandfather, Pavel Travnikov, served in in the Soviet secret police under Josef Stalin, and he’s spoken openly about his grandfather at one point being a member of Stalin’s security detail.

In the wake of his appointment as defense minister, a former correspondent for the state-run TV channel Rossiya 24 recalled a sit-down with Belousov years ago in which a joke about Stalin taking revenge on a sound engineer who’d messed up his speech got a sour reaction from Belousov, who shot back that Stalin had “better” things to do than punish a sound engineer.

Belousov is also described as deeply religious, with one source quoted saying he begins every meeting with a prayer. That may help him spread Vladimir Putin’s message that Russia is a bastion of “traditional values” and religious faith that is engaged in a civilizational clash with the supposedly deviant West.

Documents cited by Dossier Center, however, suggest the new defense boss had real estate interests in Italy as recently as 2018, when he enlisted help to sell a villa in the town of Forte dei Marmi on the Mediterranean coast. In a strange twist, one of the interested buyers was a British citizen who shared a passport number with a bogus passport used by Mossad agents to carry out the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai in 2013.

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Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin hits out at PM Modi over 'Jagannath temple missing key' speech, says "his double standard is exposed"

C hennai ( Tamil Nadu ) [India], May 21 (ANI): Amid a heated political campaign over the missing keys of the Lord Jagannath Temple 's Ratna Bhandar (treasury) in Odisha , Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said PM Modi 's double standards are exposed from his malicious thoughts towards Tamil Nadu .

On Monday, PM Modi raised the issue of missing keys of Ratna Bhandar of Jagannath Temple and held the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government responsible for this.

Condemning PM Modi over his election speech in Odisha , Tamil Nadu CM said, " PM Modi 's double standard is exposed from his malicious thoughts towards Tamil Nadu . He should stop defaming my people for votes."

" PM Modi 's statement that missing keys of Ratna Bandar of the famous temple Jagannath Temple have gone to Tamil Nadu is defaming crores of devotees of Lord Jagannath and disrespecting the people of Tamil Nadu . Is this speech not creating enmity and turning Odisha people towards Tamil Nadu ? Can PM Modi blame the Tamil Nadu people for the robbery of temple keys? Is this not disrespecting Tamil Nadu ?" he further said.

MK Stalin also accused PM Modi of depicting Tamilians as robbers during his visit to other states including Rajasthan, Odisha , Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

"When PM Modi visits Tamil Nadu speaking highly about the Tamil language but when he visits Rajasthan, Odisha , UP, MP for votes he depicts Tamilians as robbers and hate against people of Tamil Nadu , this shows PM Modi 's double standard. People will understand this," he added.

The Ratna Bhandar , a treasure trove of the 12th-century Jagannath Temple , houses the ornaments of the sibling deities - Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, and Goddess Subhadra - that erstwhile kings have offered over centuries and devotees from all over the world.

The Ratna Bhandar consists of two chambers: the Bhitar Bhandar (inner chamber) and the Bahara Bhandar (outer chamber).

Prime Minister Modi held a roadshow in the holy city of Puri on Monday along with BJP candidate Sambit Patra and addressed two public rallies later in the day.

The 2024 Lok Sabha elections are being held in seven phases from April 19 to June 1. The counting and results will be declared on June 4. (ANI)

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Stalin's 'inciting hatred' jab at PM over Puri temple keys in Tamil Nadu remark

Tamil nadu chief minister stalin said pm modi's remarks were an insult to lord jagannath and the people of tamil nadu, who have good relations with odisha..

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "inciting hatred" for his remarks that the "missing" keys of the Jagannath Temple's Ratna Bhandar (treasure trove) in Odisha's Puri were sent to Tamil Nadu. PM Modi's remarks, made at an election rally in Angul, were directed towards Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's close aide VK Pandian, who is from Tamil Nadu.

In a statement, MK Stalin said PM Modi's remarks were an insult to Lord Jagannath , who is worshipped by crores of people, and the people of Tamil Nadu, who have good relations with Odisha. Lord Jagannath is the most revered deity in Odisha.

Calling out the "double standards" of the Prime Minister, Stalin said, "Isn't this speech inciting the people of Odisha against Tamil Nadu? Why does the PM have so much hatred towards Tamils? When the PM comes to Tamil Nadu, he praises the Tamil language and intellectuals. But when he goes to states like Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha etc, he portrays Tamilians as thieves, as hateful people."

Stalin said the Prime Minister should stop defaming Tamil Nadu and Tamils ​​for votes. He also accused PM Modi of inciting hatred and enmity between states through his hate speeches.

"This is the double standards of the PM. Earlier, he blamed Tamilians for insulting the people of Uttar Pradesh. I condemned it and said that it's wrong for a political leader to incite enmity instead of fostering brotherhood. However, PM Modi has not stopped the habit of denigrating the people of Tamil Nadu," the DMK chief further said.

Prime Minister Modi held a roadshow to the Jagannath temple in Puri on Monday and offered prayers. Later, he addressed several rallies in Bhubaneswar and Angul, saying that the Jagannath temple was not safe under BJD rule.

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In Knesset speech, GOP's Elise Stefanik calls for unrestricted U.S. war aid to Israel

Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., questions Columbia University president Nemat Shafik during a House committee hearing on antisemitism in higher education last month. Mariam Zuhaib/AP hide caption

Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., questions Columbia University president Nemat Shafik during a House committee hearing on antisemitism in higher education last month.

One of the Republican Party's leaders in the U.S. House, Representative Elise Stefanik, addressed a caucus of Israel's parliament on Sunday, where she called for full military aid to support the war against Hamas in Gaza.

Stefanik, who represents a conservative district in northern New York, said the U.S. should supply "the state of Israel with what it needs, when it needs it, without conditions to achieve total victory in the face of evil."

Writing on social media, Stefanik framed the speech as a rebuke to President Joe Biden, who curbed delivery of some weapons to Israel amid growing concern over the humanitarian crisis and civilian deaths in Gaza.

Speaking with CNN earlier this month, Biden said he would withhold bombs and artillery shells if Israel escalated fighting in Rafah, a city in Gaza where large numbers of Palestinian refugees have gathered.

"If they go into Rafah, I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities," Biden said .

The Biden administration withheld a shipment of 2,000 pound bombs to Israel, but later announced plans to move forward with $1 billion in military aid .

In her speech , Stefanik who serves as House Republican conference chair, blasted the idea of any restrictions that might hamper the fight against Hamas.

"Total victory starts, but only starts, with wiping those responsible for October 7th off the face of the earth," Stefanik said.

Hamas launched an attack inside Israel on Oct. 7 that killed roughly 1,200 people, according to the Israeli government .

In the months since, Israel's military has waged a military campaign inside Gaza that has left more than 35,000 people dead , including many civilians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

The violence in Gaza has sparked international condemnation of Israel and spurred a protest movement on college campuses inside the U.S.

Stefanik blasts "moral rot" at U.S. universities

Stefanik spoke before a caucus of the Knesset focused on concerns about antisemitism on university campuses around the world.

In recent months, Stefanik has taken an increasingly prominent role during House committee hearings focused on concerns about alleged antisemitism at U.S. colleges.

Facing pressure from politicians, college campuses across the U.S. have used police to break up pro-Palestinian protests. Students, including some Jewish activists, have been rallying to force their universities into divesting from Israel or companies that are profiting from the war.

During her speech in Tel Aviv, Stefanik accused pro-Palestinian activists of "calling for intifada and genocide" against Jews.

"Those views, though given airtime by some radical Democrat members of Congress, those views do not reflect the views of the American people," Stefanik said.

Stefanik said her efforts to oust top university officials in the U.S., whom she accused of tolerating antisemitism, will continue.

Some critics have accused Republicans of leveraging legitimate fears about antisemitism to attack progressive ideas and liberal leaders.

"When loud voices are trying to exploit concerns around antisemitism to advance this broader reactionary, extremist agenda, we need to understand what's happening there," said Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, in an interview with NPR last month .

Spitalnick, speaking prior to Stefanik's address to the Knesset, told NPR she believes Jews are rightfully concerned about antisemitism.

But she fears partisan criticism of campus protesters is being used more broadly to delegitimize diversity programs and could lead to the defunding of liberal institutions.

Debate in the U.S. over antisemitism and support for the war in Gaza comes at a moment when Israeli politicians are divided over how to pursue the fight against Hamas.

A centrist member of Israel's war cabinet, Benny Gantz, has said he will leave the coalition government unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhahu develops a concrete plan for the future of Palestinians in Gaza.

"We need a strategic reversal," Gantz said in a televised speech on Saturday, describing the current situation as a "moment of truth" for Israel.

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(August 28, 1917) The Conspiracy Continues (August 28, 1917) Against Compromise with the Bourgeoisie (August 31, 1917) The Crisis and the Directory (September 3, 1917) They Will Not Swerve From Their Path (September 6, 1917) The Break with the Cadets (September 6, 1917) The Second Wave (September 9, 1917) Foreigners and the Kornilov Conspiracy (September 12, 1917) The Democratic Conference (September 14, 1917) Two Lines (September 16, 1917) All Power to the Soviets! (September 17, 1917) The Revolutionary Front (September 19, 1917) Forging Chains (September 24, 1917) A Government of Bourgeois Dictatorship (September 27, 1917) Comments (September 27, 1917) Campaign against the Workers (September 28, 1917) You Will Wait in Vain ! (September 29, 1917) Comments (September 29, 1917) A Paper Coalition (September 30, 1917) Comments (October 3, 1917) Self-Chastisement (October 4, 1917) The Plot Against the Revolution (October 4, 5, 7, 1917) Who is Torpedoing the Constituent Assembly? (October 5, 1917) The Counter-Revolution is Mobilizing—Prepare to Resist (October 10, 1917) Who Needs the Pre-Parliament? (October 10, 1917) Soviet Power (October 13, 1917) A Study in Brazenness (October 15, 1917) Blacklegs of the Revolution (October 15, 1917) Speech at a Meeting of the Central Committee (October 16, 1917) “Strong Bulls of Bashan have Beset Me Round” (October 20, 1917) What Do We Need? (October 24, 1917) Speech Delivered at the Congress of the Finnish Social-Democrat Labour Party, Helsingfors , (November 14, 1917) Reply to Ukrainian Comrades in the Rear and at the Front , (December 12, 1917) The Ukrainian Rada , (December 14, 1917) What is the Ukrainian Rada? , (December 15, 1917) The Independence of Finland , (December 22, 1917) “Turkish Armenia” , (December 31, 1917) Speech at the Meeting of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) on the Question of Peace with the Germans , (January 11, 1918) The Kiev Bourgeois Rada , (January 13, 1918) Speeches Delivered at the Third All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies , (January 10-18, 1918) Telephone Message to the Petrograd Committee, R.S.D.L.P.(B.) , (February 21, 1918) Telegram to the People’s Secretariat, Ukrainian Soviet Republic , (February 21, 1918) Note Sent by Direct Wire to the People’s Secretariat, Ukrainian Soviet Republic , (February 24, 1918) The Ukrainian Knot , (March 14, 1918) A Tatar-Bashkir Soviet Republic , (March 23, 1918) Transcaucasian Counter-Revolutionaries Under a Socialist Mask , (March 26–27, 1918) Organization of a Russian Federal Republic , (April 3–4, 1918) One Immediate Task , (April 9, 1918) General Provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic , (April 25, 1918) Telegram to the Fifth Congress of Soviets of the Turkestan Region , (April 22, 1918) The Peace Negotiations with the Ukraine , (May 9, 1918) Speeches Delivered at a Conference on the Covening of a Constituent Congress of Soviets of the Tatar-Bashkir Soviet Republic , (May 10-16, 1918) Another Lie , (May 19, 1918) The Situation in the Caucasus , (May 23, 1918) Concerning the Situation in the Caucasus , (May 28, 1918) The Don and the North Caucasus (Machinations and the Facts) , (June 1, 1918) Telegram to V.I. Lenin (June 7, 1918) Letter to V.I. Lenin (July 7, 1918) Letter to V. I. Lenin , (July 10, 1918) Letter to V. I. Lenin , (August 4, 1918) Letter to V.I. Lenin (August 31, 1918) Telegram to Sverdlov, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (August 31, 1918) Telegram to the Council of People’s Commissars (September 6, 1918) Telegram to Vorishilov, Commander of the Front, Tsaritsyn (September 18, 1918) The Southern Front, Izvestia Interview (September 21, 1918) The Logic of Facts , (October 29, 1918) Speech Delivered at a Plenary Meeting of the Moscow Soviet of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies on the Situation on the Southern Front , (October 29, 1918) The South of Russia , (October 30, 1918) The October Revolution , (October 24–25, 1917) The October Revolution and the National Question , (November 6 and 19, 1918) Partition Wall , (November 17, 1918) Don’t Forget the East , (November 24, 1918) The Ukraine is Liberating Itself , (December 1, 1918) Light from the East , (December 15, 1918) Things are Moving , (December 22, 1918) Measures Taken to Strengthen the Front (January 31, 1919) Report to V.I. Lenin , (January 19, 1919) Speech Delivered at a Joint Meeting of Party and Soviet Organizations in Vyatka , (January 19, 1919) Report to Comrade Lenin by the Commission of the Party Central Committee and the Council of Defence on the Reasons for the Fall of Perm in December 1918 (January 31, 1919) The Government’s Policy on the National Question , (January 31, 1919) To The Soviets and the Party Organizations of Turkestan , (February 12, 1919) Two Camps , (February 22, 1919) Our Tasks in the East , (March 2, 1919) Two Years , (March 9, 1919) Imperialism’s Reserves , (March 16, 1919) Excerpt from a Speech on the Military Question Delivered at the Eighth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) , (March 21, 1919) The Re-Organization of State Control , (April 9, 1919) The Shooting of the Twenty-Six Baku Comrades by Agents of British Imperialism (April 23, 1919) Telegram to the Inspector-Extraordinary of State Control, Shchigry , (May 1, 1919) Note to V.I. Lenin from Petrograd by Direct Wire (May 25, 1919) Telegram to V.I. Lenin (June 16, 1919) Note to V. I. Lenin from Petrograd by Direct Wire , (June 18, 1919) Note to V. I. Lenin from Petrograd by Direct Wire , (June 18, 1919) The Petrograd Front , (July 8, 1919) Letter to V. I. Lenin About the Situation on the Western Front , (August 11, 1919) Letter to V. I. Lenin from the Southern Front , (October 15, 1919) Telegram to V. I. Lenin , (October 25, 1919) Speech at the Opening of the Second All-Russian Congress of Communist Organizations of the Peoples of the East (November 22, 1919) Greetings to Petrograd from the Southern Front , (December 18, 1919) [ Back to the Top ]   1920s   The Military Situation in the South , (January 7, 1920) Order of the Day to the Ukrainian Labour Army , (March 7, 1920) Speeches at the Fourth Conference of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of the Ukraine , (March 23, 1920) Lenin as the Organizer and Leader of the Russian Communist Party , (April 23, 1920) Speech Delivered at a Meeting Called by the Moscow Committee, R.C.P.(B.) on the Occasion of V. I. Lenin’s Fiftieth Birthday , (April 23, 1920) The Entente’s New Campaign Against Russia , (May 25–26, 1920) The Situation on the South-Western Front , (June 24, 1920) Telegram to V. I. Lenin , (June 25, 1920) The Situation on the Polish Front , (July 11, 1920) How the Red Army is Greeted , (July 15, 1920) To All Party Organizations , (July 1920) Creation of Fighting Reserves of the Republic , (August 25, 1920) The Policy of the Soviet Government on the National Question in Russia , (October 10, 1920) Speech at the Opening of the First All-Russian Conference of Responsible Personnel of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection , (October 15, 1920) Author’s Preface. To a Collection of Articles on the National Question , (October 1920) The Political Situation of the Republic , (October 27, 1920) Three Years of Proletarian Dictatorship , (November 6, 1920) Congress of the Peoples of Daghestan , (November 13, 1920) Congress of the Peoples of the Terek Region , (November 17, 1920) The Situation in the Caucasus , (November 30, 1920) Long Live Soviet Armenia! , (December 4, 1920) Speech at the Opening of the Conference of Communists of the Tyurk People of the R.S.F.S.R. (January 1, 1921) Our Disagreements (January 5, 1921) The Immediate task of the Party in the National Question (February 10, 1921) The Tenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) (March 8–16, 1921) A Letter to V. I. Lenin (March 1921) Concerning the Presentation of the National Question (May 2, 1921) Greeting to the First Congress of Highland Women (June 17, 1921) The Political Strategy and Tactics of the Russian Communists (July 1921) The Immediate Tasks of Communism in Georgia and Transcaucasia (July 6, 1921) The Party Before and After Taking Power (August 28, 1921) The October Revolution and the National Policy of the Russian Communists (November 6–7, 1921) The Prospects (December 18, 1921) To Pravda (May 5, 1922) The Tenth Anniversary of Pravda (May 5, 1922) Comrade Lenin on Vacation Notes (September 15, 1922) Greetings to Petrograd, to the Soviet of Deputies (November 5, 1922) The Question of the Union of the Independent National Republics (November 18, 1922) The Union of the Soviet Republics (December 26, 1922) The Formation of the Union of the Soviet Republics (December 30, 1922) ‘The Federation of Soviet Republics’ Interview with Inprecorr (January 1923) PDF Concerning the Question of the Strategy and Tactics of the Russian Communists (March 14, 1923) National Factors in Party and State Affairs (March 24, 1923) The Twelfth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) (April 17–25, 1923) The Press as a Collective Organiser (May 6, 1923) Confusion Worse Confounded ... (May 10, 1923) Fourth Conference of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) with Responsible Workers of the National Republics and Regions (June 9–12, 1923) The October Revolution and the Question of the Middle Strata (November 7, 1923) The Fifth Anniversary of the First Congress of Working Women and Peasant Women (November 10, 1923) Speech at a Celebration Meeting at the Military Academy (November 17, 1923) The Party’s Tasks (December 2, 1923) The Discussion, Rafail, the Articles by Preobrazhensky and Sapronov, and Trotsy’s Letter (December 15, 1923) A Necessary Comment (December 28, 1923) Greetings to the Newspaper Communist (December 30, 1923) A Letter To Comrade Demyan Bedny (1924) The Discussion (January 9, 1924) Thirteenth Conference of the R.C.P.(B) (January 16–18, 1924) Lenin (January 28, 1924) On the Death of Lenin (January 30, 1924) On The Contradictions In The Young Communist League (April 3, 1924) The Foundations of Leninism (April 1924) The Thirteen Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) (May 23–31, 1924) The Results of the Thirteen Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) (June 17, 1924) Worker Correspondents (June 1924) The Communist Party of Poland (July 3, 1924) The Party’s Immediate Tasks in the Countryside (October 22, 1924) The Party’s Tasks in the Countryside (October 26, 1924) Y. M. Sverdlov (November 1924) Entry in the Red Book of the Dynamo Factory (November 7, 1924) To the First Cavalry Army (November 16, 1924) To Krestyanskaya Gazeta (November 17, 1924) Trotskyism or Leninism? (November 19, 1924) [ Alternate Translation ] The October Revolution & the Tactics of the Russian Communists (December 1924) Working Women and Peasant Women Remember and Carry Out Ilyich’s Behests! (January 5, 1925) To The Teachers’ Congress (January 6, 1925) Speech Delivered at a Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the R.C.P.(B.) (January 17, 1925) Speech Delivered at a Plenum of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) (January 19, 1925) To Rabochaya Gazeta (January 21, 1925) The Tasks of the Magazine Krasnaya Molodyozh (January 1925) A Letter to Comrade D-ov (January 24, 1925) “Dymovka”: Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Organising Bureau of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) (January 26, 1925) Concerning the Question of the Proletariat and the Peasantry (January 27, 1925) The Prospects of the Communist Party of Germany and the Question of Bolshevisation (February 3, 1925) A Letter to Comrade Me—rt (February 28, 1925) International Women’s Day (March 8, 1925) The Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) to the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang (March 14, 1925) The International Situation and the Tasks of the Communist Parties (March 22, 1925) The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (March 29, 1925) Concerning the National Question in Yugoslavia (March 30, 1925) The Active of the Young Communist League in the Countryside (April 6, 1925) To the First All-Union Conference of Proletarian Students (April 16, 1925) The Results of the Work of the Fourteenth Conference of the R.C.P.(B.) (May 9, 1925) The Political Tasks of the University of the Peoples of the East (May 18, 1925) To all the Members of the Editorial Board of Komsomolskaya Pravda (June 2, 1925) Questions and Answers: Speech Delivered at the Sverdlov University (June 9, 1925) To the Sverdlov University (June 13, 1925) The National Question Once Again (June 30, 1925) The Revolutionary Movement in the East (July 4, 1925) A Letter to Comrade Molotov (August 1, 1925) A Letter to Comrade Yermakovsky (September 15, 1925) Interview with the Participants in the Conference of Agitation and Propaganda Departments (October 14, 1925) The Tasks of the Young Communist League (October 29, 1925) Speech at the Funeral of M. V. Frunze (November 3, 1925) October, Lenin and the Prospects of Our Development (November 7, 1925) A Letter to the Presidium of the Twenty-Second Leningrad Gubernia Party Conference (December 8, 1925) The Fourteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) (December 18, 1925) The Fight Against Right and “Ultra-Left” Deviations (January 22, 1926) Concerning Questions of Leninism (January 25, 1926) The Peasantry as an Ally of the Working Class (February 9, 1926) The Possibility of Building Socialism in our Country (February 10, 1926) Comrade Kotovsky (February 23, 1926) Speech Delivered at the French Commission of the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. (March 6, 1926) International Communist Women’s Day (March 7, 1926) Speech Delivered in the German Commission of the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. (March 8, 1926) To Comrade Kaganovich and the Other Members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Ukraine C.P.(B.) (April 26, 1926) Reply to the Greetings of the Workers of the Chief Railway Workshops in Tiflis (June 8, 1926) The British Strike and the Events in Poland (June 8, 1926) [ Alternate Translation ] The Anglo-Russian Unity Committee (July 15, 1926) F. Dzerzhinsky: In Memory of F. Dzerzhinsky (July 22, 1926) The Anglo-Russian Unity Committee (August 7, 1926) To the Editorial Board of the Daily Worker , Central Organ of the Workers Party of America (September 21, 1926) Letter to Slepkov (October 8, 1926) Measures for Mitigating the Inner-Party Struggle: Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Political Bureau of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B) (October 11, 1926) The Social-Democratic Deviation in our Party (November 1, 1926) Reply to the Discussion on the Report on “The Social-Democratic Deviation in our Party” (November 3, 1926) The Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. (November 22, 1926) The Prospects of the Revolution in China (November 30, 1926) Inner-Party Questions of the VKP(b) (December 7, 1926) Letter to Ksenopontov (December 30, 1926) Speech Delivered at the Fifteenth Moscow Gubernia Party Conference (January 14, 1927) Letter to Comrade Zaitsev (January 28, 1927) To the Lena Workers (February 22, 1927) Greeting to the Stalingrad Newspaper Borba (February 22, 1927) Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Workers of the Stalin Railway Workshops, October Railway (March 1, 1927) Letter to Comrades Tsvetkdv and Alypov (March 7, 1927) Concerning the Questions of a Workers’ and Peasants’ Government (March 15, 1927) Letter to Shinkevich (March 20, 1927) Speech Delivered at the Fifth-Union Conference of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (March 29, 1927) Letter to Chugunov (April 9, 1927) The Party’s Three Fundamental Slogans on the Peasant Question (April 15, 1927) Questions of the Chinese Revolution (April 21, 1927) Concerning Questions of the Chinese Revolution (May 9, 1927) [ Alternate Translation ] Talk with Students of the Sun Yat-Sen University (May 13, 1927) The Slogan of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Poor Peasantry in the Period of Preparation for October (May 20, 1927) Revolution in China and Tasks of the Comintern (May 24, 1927) To the Students of the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (May 31, 1927) Reply to S. Pokrovsky (June 23, 1927) Notes on Contemporary Themes (July 28, 1927) Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.) (July 29, 1927) Questions & Answers to American Trade Unionists: Stalin’s Interview With the First American Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia (Septmber 15, 1927) To Comrade M. I. Ulyanova: Reply to Comrade L. Mikhelson (Septmber 16, 1927) The Political Complexion of the Russian Opposition (Septmber 27, 1927) Synopsis of the Article “The International Character of the October Revolution” (October 1927) The Trotskyist Opposition Before and Now (October 23, 1927) Interview with Foreign Workers’ Delegations (November 5, 1927) The International Character of the October Revolution (November 6, 1927) To the Party Conference of the Moscow Military Area (November 18, 1927) The Party and the Opposition The Fifteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) Statement to Foreign Press Correspondents Concerning the Counterfeit “Article by Stalin” (December 16, 1927) Grain Procurements and the Prospects for the Development of Agriculture (January 1928) First Results of the Procurement Campaign and the Further Tasks of the Party (February 13, 1928) Greetings to the Red Army on its Tenth Anniversary (February 1928) Three Distinctive Features of the Red Army (February 25, 1928) The Work of the April Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission (April 13, 1928) Greetings to the Workers of Kostroma (April 30, 1928) Speech Delivered at the Eighth Congress of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (May 16, 1928) To the Sverdlov University (May 1928) To Komsomolskaya Pravda (May 26, 1928) On the Grain Front (May 28, 1928) Letter to the Members of the Party Affairs Study Circle at the Communist Academy (June 8, 1928) Lenin and the Question of the Alliance with the Middle Peasant (June 12, 1928) To the Members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee (June 20, 1928) Against Vulgarising the Slogan of Self-Criticism (June 26, 1928) Plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) (June 4-12, 1928) Results of the July Plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) (June 13, 1928) To the Leningrad Osoaviakhim (July 1928) On Sixth Congress of Comintern (July 13, 1928) Letter to Comrade Kuibyshev (August 31, 1928) To the Memory of Comrade I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov (October 1928) To the Leninist Young Communist League (October 1928) The Right Danger in the C.P.S.U.(B.) (October 19, 1928) Reply to Comrade Sh. (October 27, 1928) On the Tenth Anniversary of the First Congress of Working Women and Peasant Women (November 1928) Industrialisation of the country and the Right Deviation in the C.P.S.U.(B.) (November 19, 1928) To the Workers of the “Katushka” Factory, To the Workers of the Yartsevo Factory, Smolensk Gubernia (November 25, 1928) To the Workers of the Krasny Profintern Factory, Bezhitsa (November 29, 1928) On the Tenth Anniversary of the Frunze Military Academy of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (December 1928) The Right Danger in the German Communist Party (December 19, 1928) Reply to Kushtysev (December 28, 1928) They have Sunk to New Depths (1929) Bukharin’s Group and the Right Deviation in Our Party (January 1929) Reply to Bill-Belotserkovsky (February 2, 1929) To the Working Men and Women of the Krasny Treugolnik Factory (February 2, 1929) Telegram to the Red Army Men, Commanders and Political Officers of the First Red Cossack Regiment of the Red Cavalry Division, Proskurov (February 22, 1929) Greetings to Selskokhozyaistvennaya Gazeta (March 1929) The National Question and Leninism (March 18, 1929) The Right Deviation in the C.P.S.U.(B.) (April 22, 1929) On Communist Party of USA (May 6, 1929) Stalin’s Speeches on the American Communist Party (PDF) (1929) Emulation and Labour Enthusiasm of the Masses (May 11, 1929) To Comrade Felix Kon (July 9, 1929) To the Young Communist League of the Ukraine on its Tenth Anniversary (July 10, 1929) Entry in the Log-Book of the Cruiser “Chervona Ukraina” (July 25, 1929) A Year of Great Change (November 3, 1929) To the Editorial Board of the Newspaper Trevoga , Organ of the Special Far Eastern Army (November 7, 1929) A Necessary Correction (December 18, 1929) To All Organisations and Comrades Who Sent Greetings on the Occasion of Comrade Stalin’s Fiftieth Birthday (December 21, 1929) Concerning Questions of Agrarian Policy in the U.S.S.R. (December 27, 1929) [ Back to the Top ]   1930s   Letter to A. M. Gorky (January 17, 1930) Concerning the Policy of Eliminating of the Kulaks as a Class (January 21, 1930) Reply to the Sverdlov Comrades (February 9, 1930) Dizzy With Success (March 2, 1930) To Comrade Bezymensky (March 19, 1931) To the First Graduates of the Industrial Academy (April 25, 1930) Reply to Comrade M. Rafail (May 31, 1930) Political Report to the 16th Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B) (August 27, 1930) Agricultural Machinery Works, Rostov (June 16, 1930) Tractor Works, Stalingrad (June 17, 1930) Reply to the Discussion on the Political Report of the Central Committee to the Sixteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) (July 2, 1930) Letter to Comrade Shatunovsky (August 1930) Letters to Comrade Ch. (December 7, 1930) To Comrade Demyan Bedny (December 12, 1930) Anti-Semitism (January 12, 1931) The Tasks of Business Executives (February 4, 1931) Letter to Comrade Etchin (February 27, 1931) Greetings to the Staffs of Azneft and Grozneft (March 31, 1931) To Elektrozavod (April 3, 1931) Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works Project, Magnitogorsk (May 19, 1931) To The Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Centre of Machine and Tractor Stations To all Machine and Tractor Stations (May 28, 1931) To The Chairman of the Grain Trust Board. To all State Grain Farms (May 30, 1931) New Conditions — New Tasks in Economic Construction (June 23, 1931) To the Workers and Administrative and Technical Personnel of AMO (October 1, 1931) To the Workers and the Administrative and Technical personnel of Kharkov Tractor Works Project (October 1931) To Newspaper Technika (October 1931) Talk With the German Author Emil Ludwig (December 11, 1931) [ Alternate Translation ] Some Questions Concerning the History of Bolshevism (1931) Automobile Works, Nizhni-Novgorod (November 1931) To the Chief of the Automobile Works Project and the Director of the Molotov Automobile Works, Nizhni-Novgorod (January 1932) To the Chief of the Harvester Combine Works Project and the Director of the Harvester Combine Works, Saratov (January 4, 1932) Reply to Olekhnovich and Aristov (January 15, 1932) Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works Project, Magnitogorsk (March 30, 1932) Reply to the Letter of Mr. Richardson (April 3, 1932) The Importance and Tasks of the Complaints-Bureaus (April 7, 1932) Replies to the Questions of Ralph V. Barnes (May 3, 1932) Kuznetsk Iron and Steel Works Project, Kuznetsk (May 24, 1932) Greetings to the Seventh All-Union Conference of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (July 8, 1932) Congratulations to Maxim Gorky (September 25, 1932) To the Builders of the Dnieper Hydro-Electric Power Station (October 10, 1932) Greetings to Leningrad (November 7, 1932) Letter to the Editorial Board of the Newspaper Pravda (November 18, 1932) Mr. Campbell Stretches the Truth (November 30, 1932) The Fifteenth Anniversary of the OGPU (December 20, 1932) The Results of the First Five-Year Plan (January 7, 1933) Work in the Countryside (January 11, 1933) To Rabotnitsa (January 26, 1933) Letter to Comrade I.N. Bazhanov (February 16, 1933) Speech Delivered at the Frist All-Union Congress of Collective Farm Shock Brigadiers (February 19, 1933) Greetings to the Red Army on its Fifteenth Anniversary (February 23, 1933) Reply to A Letter From Mr. Barnes (March 20, 1933) To Comrade S.M. Budyonny (April 26, 1933) Talk With Colonel Robins (May 13, 1933) Greetings on the Fifteenth Anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (October 28, 1933) Talk with Mr. Duranty, Correspondence of The New York Times (December 25, 1933) To Comrade Shchadenko, Chief and Commissar of the Frunze Military Academy of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (January 18, 1934) Report to the Seventeenth Party Congress on the Work of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.) (January 26, 1934) Instead of a Reply to the Discussion (January 31, 1934) On an Article by Engels (July 19, 1934) Marxism Versus Liberalism (July 23, 1934) Remarks on a Summary of the Manual of the History of the USSR (August 8, 1934) Remarks on a Summary of the Manual of the Modern History (August 9, 1934) The Death of Kirov (December 1, 1934) Talk with Metal Producers (December 26, 1934) Letter to Comrade Choumiatsky (January 11, 1935) Address to the Commission of the Second All Union Congress of Kolkhozines (February 15, 1935) Address given at the Reception of the 1st May Parade (May 1, 1935) Address to the Graduates from the Red Army Academies (May 4, 1935) Address to the Solemn Meeting on the Opening of the L. M. Kaganovich Metro (May 14, 1935) Speech delivered at a reception given by leaders of the Communist Party and the Government to Women Collective Farm Shock Workers (November 10, 1935) Speech at the First All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites (November 17, 1935) Speech at a Conference of Harvester-Combine Operators (December 1, 1935) Speech at a Conference of the Foremost Collective Farmers of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan (December 4, 1935) Conference of the Avant-Gradist Kolkhozine Men and Women of Tajikstan and of Turkmenistan with the Directors of the Party and the State (December 4, 1935) Decisions on the Manuals of History (January 27, 1936) Interview Between J. Stalin and Roy Howard (March 1, 1936) Pravda’s mistakes on the trial of the Zinovievites and Trotskyites (Spetember 6, 1936) Telegram from the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B) to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain (October 16, 1936) On the Draft Constitution of the U.S.S.R (November 25, 1936) Constitution (Fundamental law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (December 5, 1936) Defects in Party Work and Measures for Liquidating Trotskyite and Other Double Dealers [a.k.a. “Mastering Bolshevism”] (March 3, 1937) Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Voters of the Stalin Electoral Area, Moscow (December 11, 1937) On the Final Victory of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. (January 18, 1938) Letter on Publications for Children Directed to the Central Committee of the All Union Communist Youth (February 16, 1938) On the Prohibition of the Exclusion of Kolkhozines from the Kolkhozes (April 19, 1938) On the Incorrect Distribution of Revenues in the Kolkhozes (April 19, 1938) On the Taxes and Other Obligations Concerning Independent Operators (April 19, 1938) Speech Delivered at a Reception in the Kremlin to Higher Educational Workers (May 17, 1938) Dialectical and Historical Materialism (September 1938) A Conversation Between Cdes. Stalin, Molotov, and Voroshilov and the Governor of Xinjiang, Sheng Shicai (September 2, 1938) History of the C.P.S.U.(B) (Short Course) (1939) On Applying Physical Pressure to Prisoners (January 10, 1939) Oath of Allegiance of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (February 23, 1939) Report on the Work of the Central Committee to the Eighteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) 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Biden’s speech at the Holocaust remembrance ceremony, annotated

By Zachary B. Wolf and Annette Choi , CNN

Published May 7, 2024

President Joe Biden talked about the documented increase of antisemitism in the United States during the annual US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Remembrance ceremony at the US Capitol building. Every recent president has made remarks at least once at the event, but Biden’s remarks came as pro-Palestinian protests have disrupted classes and commencements at multiple US universities . At times, rhetoric at those protests has veered into antisemitism, offended Jewish students and sparked a fierce debate about free speech.

Biden talked in-depth about the Hamas terror attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, and the Israeli hostages that remain in captivity . He did not mention Israel’s heavy-handed response, which has not only destroyed much of Gaza and cost tens of thousands of lives but has also driven a wedge between Biden and many progressives, particularly on college campuses. See below for what he said , along with context from CNN.

Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, Stu Eizenstat, for that introduction, for your leadership of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . You are a true scholar and statesman and a dear friend.

Speaker Johnson , Leader Jeffries, members of Congress and especially the survivors of the Holocaust. If my mother were here, she’d look at you and say, “God love you all. God love you all.”

Abe Foxman and all other survivors who embody absolute courage and dignity and grace are here as well.

During these sacred days of remembrance we grieve, we give voice to the 6 million Jews who were systematically targeted and murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. We honor the memory of victims, the pain of survivors, the bravery of heroes who stood up to Hitler's unspeakable evil. And we recommit to heading and heeding the lessons that one of the darkest chapters in human history to revitalize and realize the responsibility of never again.

The Days of Remembrance commemoration has been an annual event since 1982. Every US president since Bill Clinton has spoken at least once at a remembrance event.

House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke shortly before Biden and tried to compare the situation on college campuses today with that on college campuses in Germany in the 1930s.

Never again, simply translated for me, means never forget, never forget. Never forgetting means we must must keep telling the story, we must keep teaching the truth, we must keep teaching our children and our grandchildren. And the truth is we are at risk of people not knowing the truth.

That's why, growing up, my dad taught me and my siblings about the horrors of the Shoah at our family dinner table.

Shoah is the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.

That's why I visited Yad Vashem with my family as a senator, as vice president and as president. And that's why I took my grandchildren to Dachau , so they could see and bear witness to the perils of indifference, the complicity of silence in the face of evil that they knew was happening.

Biden visited Yad Vashem , Israel’s Holocaust remembrance site, in 2022 as president.

As vice president, he toured the Nazi concentration camp outside Munich in 2015 with his granddaughter during a trip for an annual security conference.

Germany, 1933, Hitler and his Nazi party rise to power by rekindling one of the world's oldest forms of prejudice and hate — antisemitism.

His rule didn't begin with mass murder. It started slowly across economic, political, social and cultural life — propaganda demonizing Jews, boycotts of Jewish businesses, synagogues defaced with swastikas, harassment of Jews in the street and in the schools, antisemitic demonstrations, pogroms, organized riots.

With the indifference of the world, Hitler knew he could expand his reign of terror by eliminating Jews from Germany, to annihilate Jews across Europe through genocide the Nazis called the final solution. Concentration camps, gas chambers, mass shootings. By the time the war ended, 6 million Jews, one out of every three Jews in the entire world, were murdered.

This ancient hatred of Jews didn't begin with the Holocaust. It didn't end with the Holocaust either, or after, even after our victory in World War II. This hatred continues to lie deep in the hearts of too many people in the world and requires our continued vigilance and outspokenness.

The Holocaust survivor Irene Butter wrote for CNN Opinion in 2021 about Adolf Hitler’s rise and echoes of Nazism in the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

That hatred was brought to life on October 7th in 2023. On the sacred Jewish holiday, the terrorist group Hamas unleashed the deadliest day of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Read mo re about Hamas .

Driven by ancient desire to wipe out the Jewish people off the face of the Earth, over 1,200 innocent people — babies, parents, grandparents — slaughtered in their kibbutz, massacred at a music festival, brutally raped, mutilated and sexually assaulted .

Evidence of sexual violence has been documented. Here’s the account of one Israeli woman who has spoken publicly about her experience.

Thousands more carrying wounds, bullets and shrapnel from the memory of that terrible day they endured. Hundreds taken hostage, including survivors of the Shoah.

Now here we are, not 75 years later but just seven-and-a-half months later and people are already forgetting, are already forgetting that Hamas unleashed this terror. That it was Hamas that brutalized Israelis. It was Hamas who took and continues to hold hostages. I have not forgotten, nor have you, and we will not forget.

On May 7, 1945, the German High Command agreed to an unconditional surrender in World War II, 79 years ago.

And as Jews around the world still cope with the atrocities and trauma of that day and its aftermath, we've seen a ferocious surge of anti s emitism in America and around the world.

In late October, FBI Director Christopher Wray said reports of antisemitism in the US were reaching “ historic ” levels.

Vicious propaganda on social media, Jews forced to keep their — hide their kippahs under baseball hats, tuck their Jewish stars into their shirts.

On college campuses, Jewish students blocked, harassed, attacked while walking to class . Antisemitism, antisemitic posters , slogans calling for the annihilation of Israel, the world's only Jewish state.

Many Jewish students have described feeling intimidated and attacked on campuses. Others have said they support the protests , citing the situation in Gaza.

Last month, the dean of the University of California Berkeley Law School described antisemitic posters that targeted him.

Too many people denying, downplaying, rationalizing, ignoring the horrors of the Holocaust and October 7th, including Hamas' appalling use of sexual violence to torture and terrorize Jews. It's absolutely despicable and it must stop.

Silence. Silence and denial can hide much but it can erase nothing.

Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, so grievous they cannot be married – buried, no matter how hard people try.

In my view, a major lesson of the Holocaust is, as mentioned earlier, is it not, was not inevitable.

We know hate never goes away. It only hides. And given a little oxygen, it comes out from under the rocks.

We also know what stops hate. One thing: All of us. The late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks described antisemitism as a virus that has survived and mutated over time.

Together, we cannot continue to let that happen. We have to remember our basic principle as a nation. We have an obligation. We have an obligation to learn the lessons of history so we don't surrender our future to the horrors of the past. We must give hate no safe harbor against anyone. Anyone.

From the very founding, our very founding, Jewish Americans , who represented only about 2% of the US population , have helped lead the cause of freedom for everyone in our nation. From that experience we know scapegoating and demonizing any minority is a threat to every minority and the very foundation of our democracy.

As of 2020, Jewish Americans made up about 2.4% of the US population, according to the Pew Research Center , or about 5.8 million people.

So moments like this we have to put these principles that we're talking about into action.

I understand people have strong beliefs and deep convictions about the world .

In America we respect and protect the fundamental right to free speech, to debate and disagree, to protest peacefully and make our voices heard . I understand. That's America.

The complaint of many protesters is that Israel’s response to the terror attack has claimed more than 30,000 lives and destroyed much of Gaza .

But there is no place on any campus in America, any place in America, for antisemitism or hate speech or threats of violence of any kind.

Whether against Jews or anyone else, violent attacks, destroying property is not peaceful protest. It's against the law and we are not a lawless country. We're a civil society. We uphold the rule of law and no one should have to hide or be brave just to be themselves.

To the Jewish community, I want you to know I see your fear, your hurt and your pain.

Let me reassure you as your president, you're not alone. You belong. You always have and you always will.

And my commitment to the safety of the Jewish people, the security of Israel and its right to exist as an independent Jewish state is ironclad, even when we disagree.

My administration is working around the clock to free remaining hostages, just as we have freed hostages already, and will not rest until we bring them all home.

My administration, with our second gentleman's leadership, has launched our nation's first national strategy to counter antisemitism. That's mobilizing the full force of the federal government to protect Jewish communities.

But we know this is not the work of government alone or Jews alone. That's why I’m calling on all Americans to stand united against antisemitism and hate in all its forms.

My dear friend — and he became a friend — the late Elie Wiesel said, quote, “One person of integrity can make a difference.”

Elie Wiesel , the Holocaust survivor, writer and activist, died in 2016.

We have to remember that, now more than ever.

Here in Emancipation Hall in the US Capitol, among the towering statues of history is a bronze bust of Raoul Wallenberg . Born in Sweden as a Lutheran, he was a businessman and a diplomat. While stationed in Hungary during World War II, he used diplomatic cover to hide and rescue about 100,000 Jews over a six-month period.

Read more about Wallenberg , the Holocaust hero and Swedish diplomat who was formally declared dead in 2016, 71 years after he vanished.

Among them was a 16-year-old Jewish boy who escaped a Nazi labor camp. After the war ended, that boy received a scholarship from the Hillel Foundation to study in America. He came to New York City penniless but determined to turn his pain into purpose. Along with his wife, also a Holocaust survivor, he became a renowned economist and foreign policy thinker, eventually making his way to this very Capitol on the staff of a first-term senator.

That Jewish refugee was Tom Lantos and that senator was me. Tom and his wife and Annette and their family became dear friends to me and my family. Tom would go on to become the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to Congress, where he became a leading voice on civil rights and human rights around the world. Tom never met Raoul, who was taken prisoner by the Soviets, never to be heard from again.

Read more about Lantos , the longtime congressman and Holocaust survivor who died in 2008. Lantos worked for Biden early in his career.

But through Tom's efforts, Raoul’s bust is here in the Capitol. He was also given honorary US citizenship, only the second person ever after Winston Churchill. The Holocaust Museum here in Washington is located in a road in Raoul’s name.

The story of the power of a single person to put aside our differences, to see our common humanity, to stand up to hate and its ancient story of resilience from immense pain, persecution, to find hope, purpose and meaning in life, we try to live and share with one another. That story endures.

Let me close with this. I know these days of remembrance fall on difficult times. We all do well to remember these days also fall during the month we celebrate Jewish American heritage, a heritage that stretches from our earliest days to enrich every single part of American life today.

There are important topics Biden did not address. He referenced the October 7 attacks on Israel but not Israel’s controversial response, which has drawn furious protests. He failed to mention Gaza, where Israel’s military campaign has killed so many, and which has led the World Food Programme to warn of a “full-blown famine .”

A great American — a great Jewish American named Tom Lantos — used the phrase “the veneer of civilization is paper thin.” We are its guardians, and we can never rest.

My fellow Americans, we must, we must be those guardians. We must never rest. We must rise Against hate, meet across the divide, see our common humanity. And God bless the victims and survivors of the Shoah.

May the resilient hearts, the courageous spirit and the eternal flame of faith of the Jewish people forever shine their light on America and around the world, pray God.

Thank you all.