>turned a feudal backwater shithole full of illiterate bydlos into a space-faring superpower with the world's second largest economy in a single generation
How'd he do it? What was his secret?
Communism
>>3126195
That's not a real picture of Stalin.
>>3126195
30 million slavs
>>3126195
Starve his people to death.
>>3126195
Minus going into space and oppression of Koreans and Okinawans aside, so what? Emperor Meiji managed to turn Japan into a world power with in a couple of decades without sacrificing millions of Japanese lives in order to do so.
>>3126195
Lenin friendship
>>3126195
by throwing a ton of people in the gulag and making the remainder eat sawdust