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Engineers of the human soul ((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language) Russian : Инженеры человеческих душ , (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language) Chinese : 人类灵魂的工程师 ) was a term applied to writers and other cultural workers by (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin) Joseph Stalin . The phrase was apparently coined by (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Olesha) Yury Olesha ; (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Shklovsky) Viktor Shklovsky said that Olesha used it in a meeting with Stalin at the home of (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Gorky) Maxim Gorky , and it was subsequently used by Stalin, who said «Как метко выразился товарищ Олеша, писатели — инженеры человеческих душ» ("As comrade Olesha aptly expressed himself, writers are engineers of human souls"). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineers_of_the_human_soul#cite_note-1) [ 1 ] During his meeting with writers in preparation for the first Congress of the (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Soviet_Writers) Union of Soviet Writers , Stalin said: "The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human

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