Stalin and vote-counting

[Rodney Patterson]

>From: Alexander Ogden <ogdenj at GWM.SC.EDU>
>Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
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>Subject: Stalin and vote-counting
>Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:04:47 -0500
>
>Dear colleagues,
>
>A friend just inquired about one of the post-election sets of jokes
>circulating on the internet, wondering whether the following quotation is
>accurate and what the particular context was:
>
> >"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes
>decide
>everything."
> >       -- Joseph Stalin
>
>Any info appreciated!
>Best wishes,
>Alex Ogden
>
>
>
>--------------------------------
>Dr. J. Alexander Ogden
>Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature
>Department of Germanic, Slavic & East Asian
>          Languages and Literatures
>University of South Carolina
>Columbia, SC 29208
>(803) 777-9573; fax: (803) 777-0132
>ogden at sc.edu
>
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