Josef Stalin: Difference between revisions

* [[Boomerang Bigot]]: A Georgian who committed huge-scale violence against Georgia, though he was (slightly) less harsh on Georgia than he was on most of the other Soviet republics.

* [[The Chessmaster]] - Stalin engineered his coming to power by abusing a [[Almighty Janitor|previously-obscure position of Secretary General]]. His job was to recruit new Party members, and, in just a few years, he formed a majority out of newcomers, personally loyal to him, and ousted the Communist old guard from power.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]] - Well-known for his sardonic sense of humor

* [[Dirty Communists]]: Without a doubt, the Most Triumphant Example.

** Stalin was not only fond of his mother, he was also kind of scared of her too; he supposedly left the Georgian Orthodox Church relatively untouched mostly because he was afraid of the tongue-lashing he'd get from Mom (she was a devout Georgian Orthodox Christian and had, after all, wanted him to be a priest).

* [[Evil Overlord]] - One of the [[Trope Codifier|TropeCodifiers]], especially for Western audiences.

* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Part of the secret to his success was his image, and he was good at it.

* [[Follow the Leader]] - He inspired (read: forced) several communist rulers to copy his policies and practices, including Five-Year Plans, pervasive personality cults, and of course, good old-fashioned repression...but didn't gain as much success as he did.

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