>>536634232
The only anti semitic leader besides Hitler and Mussolini in history
No, anti judaism is not anti semitism

Killing Trotsky was based and he makes liberals seethe like crazy as well as anarchists.

>>536634232
Kike out of ten

>>536634343
He was Georgian and Orthodox

>>536634232
A nigger/10
Like all you now commies call russians and root for jews

4/10. He was weak to his own paranoia, and crippled his own nation right before the war over it.
Plus he had to rule through fear rather than respect.

>>536634232
Seems to me that he was a dedicated communist. That doesn't necessarily mean that he wasn't power-hungry, but I think he probably was sincere in that he actually wanted what he said he wanted, despite whatever morally questionable actions he took towards that end.
Of course that doesn't mean that he was on a good path or that the steps along that path were justified.

>>536634232
paranoid schizo like many here

>>536634232
Too soft. 100 million more traitors, counter revolutionaries and reactionaries should have been executed by 1950. Soviet union would still exist if he had done so.

>>536634232
Ottoman intelligence

>>536634232
As a politician, probably 9/10. As a leader? 6/10. The first is the consolidation of power, which is basically the gold-standard for totalitarian dictatorships. In leadership, crash industrialisation was a disaster and nearly collapsed the whole country. Millions died in the resulting famine, which was completely unnecessary.

From what I've gleaned reading about Stalin, the Great Terror was based on pieces of information he was receiving about Trotsky. His obsession with Trotsky lead him to view the Spanish Republican cause as suspect, full of Trotskyists, so the Republicans simply lost. I think he also sincerely believed a subversive conspiracy existed throughout the institutions that threatened his power. I don't think Stalin fully appreciated just how those same institutions would respond to his desire for a purge. It caused a cascade effect: one official signs a confession, implicates other innocent people, those people are then tortured and implicate others, creating a rachet effect where hundreds of thousands of innocent people died until he killed the NKVD leadership, who were the ones that carried out the executions.

He was a disaster in the early stages of Babarossa. The defeats at Minsk and Kiev were either due to his own strategic illiteracy or simply because the field commanders in 1941 were party lackies. Either way, Stalin did learn, but hundreds of thousands of troops were lost before he did.

>>536634366
He was a cuck and a weak man around strong women.