In all the comments and statements made by Stalin several conveying essentially the same message stand out as exceptionally accurate, perspicacious, wise, and realistic.  If they don’t provide proof that Stalin was in tune with the times, world conditions and the future nothing does.  They furnish tremendous justification for his beliefs and actions throughout the entire period of his leadership and, oddly enough, were recorded by, among others, that quintessential revisionist traitor, Khrushchov.  Upon uttering these words Stalin could not have been more accurate if he had strained his brain to the utmost, and I know of nothing that better justifies the trials and behavior of the Soviet government in the 1930’s.  He said the following regarding his successors most of whose ideology mirrored that of those put on trial
in the 1930’s:

      "Right up until his death Stalin used to tell us, 'You'll see; when I'm gone the imperialistic powers will wring your necks like chickens.'   We never tried to reassure him that we would be able to manage.  We knew it wouldn't do any good.  Besides, we had doubts of our own about Stalin's foreign policy.  He overemphasized the importance of military might, for one thing, and consequently put too much faith in our armed forces."
        Talbott, Strobe, Trans. and Ed. Khrushchev Remembers. Boston: Little Brown, c1970, p. 392

      In his 1956 20th Party speech Khrushchov stated, "Shortly after the doctors were arrested we members of the Politburo received protocols with the doctors' confessions of guilt.  After distributing these protocols Stalin told us, 'You are blind like young kittens; what will happen without me?  The country will perish because you do not know how to recognize enemies.'"
        Talbott, Strobe, Trans. and Ed. Khrushchev Remembers. Boston: Little Brown, c1970, p. 601

      "On the subject of the relations between the Soviet Union and the capitalist world, Stalin took every chance to instill in us the idea that we were mere kittens, calves to be led around by the rest of the world.  'The West will wrap you around its finger,' he would warn us.  Stalin never expressed any confidence that we were worthy of representing our socialist nation, or defending its interest in the international arena.
        Schecter, Jerrold. Trans & Ed. Khrushchev Remembers: the Glasnost Tapes. Boston: Little, Brown, c1990, p. 79
 

      "Khrushchev, like several other political figures, recalled in his memoirs that at the end of his life Stalin began to wander what would happen to all his work after he was gone.  At the midnight dinner table he often asked his cronies how they would get on without him, and just as often would say: 'They'll crush you like kittens.'
        Volkogonov, Dmitrii. Autopsy for an Empire. New York: Free Press, c1998, p. 169

      "Stalin gave the orders on how the investigation should proceed:...  By early January 1953 confessions had been obtained.  Stalin passed them round the leadership saying, 'You are blind like kittens; what will happen without me?  The country will perish because you do not know how to recognize enemies.'"
        Conquest, Robert. Stalin: Breaker of Nations. New York, New York: Viking, 1991, p. 309

      "Sensing their incredulity and unease, he [Stalin] scoffed at them: 'You are blind, like young kittens.  What will happen here without me?  The country will perish--you do not know how to recognize an enemy.'
        Deutscher, Isaac. Stalin; A Political Biography. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, p. 620

      "Khrushchev, like several other political figures, recalled in his memoirs that at the end of his life Stalin began to wonder what would happen to all his work after he was gone.  At the midnight dinner table he often asked his cronies how they would get on without him, and just as often would say: 'They'll crush you like kittens.'"
        Volkogonov, Dmitrii. Autopsy for an Empire. New York: Free Press, c1998, p. 169

        And what happened?  The capitalists crushed them like young kittens just as Stalin repeatedly predicted.
 
 

      ANOTHER INCREDIBLE PREDICTION MADE BY STALIN WAS NOTED BY C. P. SNOW AND THE TROTSKYIST ISAAC DEUTSCHER.

        “'We are 50 or 100 years behind the advanced countries.  We must make good this lag in 10 years.  Either we do it, or they will crush us'--so Stalin had spoken exactly ten years before Hitler set out to conquer Russia.  His words, when they were recalled now, could not but impress people as a prophecy brilliantly fulfilled, as a most timely call to action.  And, indeed, a few years delay in the modernization of Russia might have made all the difference between victory and defeat."  Deutscher, Isaac. Stalin; A Political Biography. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1967, p. 550
 

      “'We are 50 or a 100 years behind the advanced countries.  We must make good the lag in 10 years.  Either we do it or they will crush us.'  At this date, no person of moderate detachment could disagree."
        Snow, Charles Percy. Variety of Men. New York: Scribner, 1966, p. 257
 

    STALIN'S ACTUAL WORDS WERE DELIVERED IN A SPEECH AT THE FIRST ALL-UNION CONFERENCE OF LEADING PERSONNEL OF SOCIALIST INDUSTRY ON FEBRUARY 4, 1931,
        “We are 50 or 100 years behind the advanced countries.  We must make good this distance in 10 years.  Either we do it, or we shall go under.”
        Stalin, Joseph. Works. Moscow: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1952, Vol. 13, p. 41

THE NAZIS ATTACKED ON JUNE 22, 1941.