If Stalin had learned to play cricket, the world might now be a better place.

-Downey, Dr Richard
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Stalin†that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age† The occasion is not merely the passing away of a great figure but perhaps the ending of an historic era.

-Nehru,Jawaharlal
   Tribute, Indian Parliament, 9 Mar.

It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

-Trotsky, Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein
  My Life, p.501.