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Stalin said 'no man, no problem'.
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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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4 sources for · 0 against
Is it true that Stalin said 'no man, no problem'?
Unclear. Several books and a novel attribute the phrase 'no man, no problem' to Stalin, but each reports it as a saying he is meant to have said rather than documenting an actual utterance. No item provides a primary source for Stalin saying it.
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Stalin: Breaker of Nations - Wikipedia. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin:_Breaker_of_Nations
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Montefiore, S. S. (2004). Stalin. books.google.com. http://books.google.com/books?id=XOsNAQAAMAAJ&dq=Stalin+said+%27no+man,+no+problem%27.&hl=&as_pt=BOOKS&source=gbs_api
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Kennedy, D. M. (2003). The American People in the Great Depression. play.google.com. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=UQlEq9GILRgC&source=gbs_api
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Clive, C. & Paul, K. (2007). Polar shift : a novel from the NUMA files. archive.org. https://archive.org/details/polarshiftnovelf04cuss
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