Stalin did a super job leading the Soviet Union, if you are into mass murder on the class of millions that is, and torture, imprisonment, suppression of all freedoms, secret police, corruption, inflicting poverty on entire nations. But other than that - what is there to not like?
One tactic that Stalin and the other Communist leadership used during WWII was the use of the term “Mother Russia”. It was always about saving Mother Russia, not saving Communism.
When Stalin died, many people who were put into the Gulags, cried.
Kinda like the Chinese and their communist party. Why are we even dealing with these sorts of countries.