> My favorite is what Stalin said to one of his sons,
> Vasily I think (the alcoholic one), when the latter
> tried unsuccessfully to shoot himself:
>
> "HA! You missed!"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300087152/102-4672707-6432941?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century (Paperback) by
Jonathan Glover
>...Stalin's bracing comment, made while signing death warrants:
"Who's going to remember all this riff-raff in ten or twenty years'
time? No one."
-- Michael Pugliese