Lazar Kaganovich

Lazar Kaganovich (in Russian Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович), Lazar' Moiseevič Kaganovič, (22 November 1893 {November 10 O.S.} – 25 July 1991), was a Soviet politician and administrator.

Quotes

 * Every time they say that what's happening in the country is... Stalin's fault. It's the moral of every speech: Stalin's guilty, it was Stalin, Stalin, Stalin, everyone against him. But Stalin died 35 years ago! 35 years! What does that have to do with today's troubles?
 * Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica


 * First, Stalin is disowned, now, little by little, it gets to prosecute socialism, the October Revolution, and in no time they will also want to prosecute Lenin and Marx.
 * Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica


 * Iosif Vissarionovich was a really cautious man. Really cautious. A man who could see far.
 * Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica


 * Without Stalin's politics, we would never have achieved anything, we would all have died.
 * Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica

Quotes about Kaganovich

 * One former member of [the antiparty] group [ Molotov] became an ambassador. True, the country [ Outer Mongolia] may not be large, but it is an ambassadorship. I do not want to mention names, but you have some former Secretaries of State. I do not know where they are today, but they are not ambassadors. A second member of the group [Kaganovich] is now head of the state asbestos trust. Is that punishment, to head up a big monopoly? … It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them.
 * Anastas Mikoyan, "Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote" in Time magazine (26 January 1959)