Indeed. I ran across mention of the phrase, attributing it to Stalin when I was in High School (late 60s). Kind of hard for someone to have first said it in the 80s.
FWIW, this was around the time Nikita Khrushchev said 'we will bury you' (which turns out to be an old Russian saying meaning "we will outlive you", not "we will attack you and win"). I ran across the Stalin attribution when I was trying to figure out whether Khrushchev meant he was about to start WWIII. I didn't expect to live to see the year 2000. The Cold War was like that.