Bring Stalin up in regard to Russia is as silly as bringing up Hitler when discussing modern-day Germany.
Your hero Putin directly compared his leadership of Russia today, invading Ukraine, to Hitler invading Poland.
In his interview with Tucker.
The main difference is that this time there is no other country or empire wanting to be on the other side of the table in a new Molotov-Rippentrop arrangement.
Germany definitely doesn’t want the job, France doesn’t care enough to get involved, the EU is listening to the Baltics and Poland telling them that no deal with Putin will be honored by Putin, the US and UK will not violate the Budapest Memorandum like Russia already has, and even Turkey sticks to the UN Charter.
But fortunately for Putin we do have the “useful idiots” brigade, mostly in the USA nowhere near the conflict zone, who periodically wheel out the “everyone wins except Ukraine and Moldova if Poland can have this bit, Russia gets all the beachfront property, Hungary gets a crumb and there are no more dancing Zelenskyy GIFs” sell.
Putin leaves it to others like Solovyov, Dugin and Medvedev to complain about not having NATO or the EU saying “sure, let’s party like it’s 1939... Even if you think we’ll invade Russia later so you can keep up your paranoia, and we’re totally convinced you’ll invade another bit of Eastern Europe later, but let’s park that problem for today and whip some coins off Ukrainian corpses.”