top | item 45584865 (no title) fghorow | 4 months ago Joseph Stalin said some version of "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."(Mixed rating, according to Snopes.) discuss order hn newest andreygrehov|4 months ago 'I care not who casts the votes of a nation, provided I can count them,' Napoleon failed to remark." — New York Times editorial (26 May 1880) [0].[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1880/05/26/archives/imperialism.html DavidWoof|4 months ago Snopes has this as mixed because Stalin may or may not have expressed this sentiment at some point, but it seems impossibly unlikely to me that this pun works in Russian as it does in English.
andreygrehov|4 months ago 'I care not who casts the votes of a nation, provided I can count them,' Napoleon failed to remark." — New York Times editorial (26 May 1880) [0].[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1880/05/26/archives/imperialism.html
DavidWoof|4 months ago Snopes has this as mixed because Stalin may or may not have expressed this sentiment at some point, but it seems impossibly unlikely to me that this pun works in Russian as it does in English.
andreygrehov|4 months ago
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1880/05/26/archives/imperialism.html
DavidWoof|4 months ago