Uncle Joe
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English
Proper noun
- (informal) Joseph Stalin.
- 1943, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, quoted in, 1974, Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It:
- "Of course, it's just the thing for the Russians. They couldn't want anything better. Unconditional surrender," he repeated, thoughtfully sucking a tooth. "Uncle Joe might have made it up himself."
- 2002, Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit:
- "It won't get that far. The Politburo is is too circumspect," said the DDI. […]
"Tell that to Leon Trotsky," Ritter said sharply.
"That was personal. Stalin wanted to eat his liver with onions and gravy," Greer replied. "That was pure personal hatred, and it achieved nothing on the political level."
"Not the way Uncle Joe looked at it. He was genuinely afraid of Trotsky—"
- 1943, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, quoted in, 1974, Elliott Roosevelt, As He Saw It:
