Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Comrades, I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how. But what is extraordinarily important is this: who will count the votes, and how.” ~ Josef Stalin (1879-1953) Communist leader of the USSRSource: 'Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary' by Boris Bazhanov (1900-1982) a Soviet Union Politburo secretary who served as Stalin's personal secretary