In all of history has there been a greater leader than Joseph Stalin?

>>2201424
Define "greatness."

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>>2201424
Basil "Bulgarians on the slack get the wrack" II

>get appointed as the political heir to the bolshevik party
>lenin chose you over the jew
>still, you were a southern hick
>lenin retracts his appointment, but by this time stalin has party control
>lets institute slave labor
>i mean prison camps
>i mean communist education groups
>destroy the future of russia using the five year plans in four
>industrialize and collectivize
>kill officers pre-WW2 because they are not on party lines
>gets rekt ezpzy with operation Barbarossa
>realizes that he should let military do its fucking job
>actually bad at his job
>"muh theory is better than your pragmatism"

inb4 tankies scream "muh collectivism"

>>2201481
Trotskyite/CIA asset detected.

>>2201481
I don't think Stalin shifted to left communism because he felt it was "better in theory" or because it was "truer to Marxism" but because more central planning meant more power to himself. He was one of the most successful modern dictators, if not the best - in the sense that he gained a lot of power and kept it for a very long time.