I didn’t know those Stalin quotes were made up. Perhaps I didn’t investigate it because it’s easy to read a correct meaning into them, unlike the Nazi quotes people give Lenin.

It’s like Stalin’s “No person, no problem” quote which is completely correct from a Marxist standpoint but removed from context and refracted through anticommunist mythology, goes from sociological first principal to endorsement for wanton murder. Mao also has one about the inevitability of death that experiences the same effect.