All Commies adhere to the Leninist axiom that the end justifies the means. The road to sociallism is paved with the bodies of OTHER socialists thrown under the bus.
Ulyanov forgot Acton's premise on power throughout history. Dxhugashvili simply ignored it, and by ignoring proved it yet once again.
Even so, the most salient comment on the old Soviets and all other 'originally' would-be do-gooders and improvers of society is still:
''If I knew a man were coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.''
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Book I.