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* [[Large and In Charge]]: Actually subverted. He wasn't as tall as paintings, statues or his personality cult in general would have you believe. He was likely around 5'6", making him a sort of [[The Napoleon|Napoleon]].
** Amusingly, Napoleon was around 5'7", making Stalin even more of a Napoleon than Napoleon was.
* [[Man Behind the Man]]: Lots of people across Europe, esp. on the Right, thought that almost every Communist party took directions from Moscow. Turns out this was true, to the point where he was forcefully directing party policy, though not necessarily for the better (like getting his Stalinists to turn on the Troskyists in the Spanish Civil War, despite being on the same side; and telling German Communists that fighting the Nazi Party wasn't a big priority). Advised [[Mao
** Stalin supported [[Mao
** Interestingly enough, he actually had a policy of denouncing socialist parties in Western Europe and didn't commit as much to the Spanish Civil War as he could have (although he did nab most of their gold as payment for his services) to avoid the creation of an organized anti-communist bloc in Europe.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Not only did he masterfully exploit the position of General Secretary to develop his power base, Stalin also proved himself a genius at keeping the rest of the Soviet leaders alternately terrified of and dependent on him. He found all sorts of ways to eavesdrop on his minions, play off their fears, and destroy anyone who he feared would become a threat to his power, whether through carefully arranged executions or brutal mass purges. They didn't call him the ''Vozhd'' ("Master") for nothing.
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* [[Recycled in Space]] - Has been described as Genghis Khan <small>WITH [[Tank Goodness|TANKS]]!</small>
* [[Removed From the Picture]]: Stalin had a tendency to erase his political rivals from photographs taken before he had them killed. The best example is [[media:soviet_censorship_8273.jpg|this photograph]], which was edited ''three times'' until Stalin was the only one left. And if you look closely, his face seems to get a little lonelier each time.
* [[The Spock]] - Played the cold, unbending, calculating card, what with [[Winston Churchill]]'s downright [[The McCoy|McCoy]]-like bouts of gentlemanly fervor and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|FDR]]'s [[The Kirk|constant need to find a happy medium]].
* [[The Starscream]] - In a testament written just before his death, Lenin denounced Stalin's ambitions and tried to warn the other Soviet leaders about them. Unfortunately, Stalin managed to blunt the effect of the testament and still seized power after Lenin's death anyway.
** Also, much of the Politburo--and particularly Beria--during his reign.
** And [[
* [[Token Evil Teammate]] - To [[Winston Churchill]] of Great Britain and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Harry Truman]], respectively of the United States in [[World War II]].
** Which isn't to say that America and Britain didn't do evil things as well, just that they weren't as bad Stalin's Soviet Union.
* [[The Unfettered]]
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* Similarly, he's the title character in [[Michael Moorcock]]'s ''The Steel Tsar.''
* The ''[[Samurai Cat]]'' books have him and Hitler as relatively genial buddies, oddly. [[World War II]] was just a bet between them to see who could kill more Russians; the loser ended up working for the winner. {{spoiler|And they all became werewolves. Even Hitler. And, oddly, neither Tomokato nor Shiro could kill him.}} For the series being very loose with reality and history (a samurai who's heard of the Chicago Cubs ''in 16th century Japan'', while discussing their awfulness with Prohibition-era gangsters).
* In ''[[Superman: Red Son]]'', Communist Superman initially reported to Stalin, before taking over leadership of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death ("The Man of Steel is dead!").
* Appears as part of The Terror's [[Legion of Doom]] on ''[[The Tick]]''.
** Or rather, a guy who ''really looks'' like Joseph Stalin and has done some research on him. For The Terror, that's close enough for him to make the team.
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