[Salman]

Well obviously that wasn't *real* socialism, because Stalin was against it after he was for it after he was against it.

Right?

[Olympiad Fisherman]

Yes, sadly to say ....

[dfwgator]

Ironically, Stalin too was a “National Socialist”, he rejected Lenin and Trotsky’s Internationalism in favor of “Socialism in One Country”. His foreign policy goals were more aligned to those of the Czars.