what a crock
Stalin on the other hand was a Communist in name only. No. Stalin was a Communist dictator. He followed the ideology exactly "name only"? what a crock! Enemies of the the state were killed. tartars and independent farmers were starved into submitting to collectivist policies, army men who were politically suspect were murdered 1937-1938 purges), innocent people who dared to even joke about Stalin were sent ot the gulag to die. In the end Stalin killed 20 million or more of his own people. It was a logical conclusion of the Communist ideology that put the state ahead of the individual. People were expendable.
similar destruction occured in China during the 'cultural revolution' and under the communist regime of pol pot. And of course practically every communist country under soviet or chinese orbit, including Cuba up until today, jailed dissidents and political freedom-fighters.
It was a logical conclusion of the Communist ideology that put the state ahead of the individual. People were expendable. And Stalin, put the individual, HIMSELF, above the state and the collective. He may have followed Communist ideology but his devotion was to self, not the growth of Communism or the benefit of the workers. People are expendable under any dictatorship when they are a threat to the dictator.