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* [[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.
* [[Cult of Personality]]: Is the [[Trope Codifier]] for the modern era. His personality cults painted him as [[Large and In Charge|a giant of a man]] who earned all of his [[I Have Many Names|many grandiose titles]], whom the Soviet citizenry was ''obligated'' to love. There's a reason he's the page image for the trope.
* [[Defector From Decadence]]: His [[White Sheep|daughter Svetlana]] defected, and surprisingly survived.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]] - Well-known for his sardonic sense of humor
* [[Dirty Communists]]: Without a doubt, the Most Triumphant Example.
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** Other sources claim that Stalin also spoke Georgian with Beria, the Georgian head of the secret police, just to keep the conversations private, no other Georgian-speakers being present in the top clique.
** 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).
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: He once chewed out his son Vasily(a [[Royal Brat]] if ever there was one) for his behavior. Columnist Jay Norlinger commented,"When you've been rebuked by Stalin, morally, you've been rebuked.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: Not only was his regime vicious it was unsporting and anytime someone happened to be an opponent he was in for a lot of what can only be described as spite. One of the more murderous examples of that was keeping the Russian artillery firing half an hour after the truce in the Winter War. A tamer example but one that is a clear example of pettiness was objecting to the Polish exile army taking part in the victory parade in London at the end of World War II. British agents during the Russian Civil War were always remembered as personally villainous rather then just as opponents. And of course during the Purge victims were accused not just of criminality but of impossibly repulsive villainy and forced to confess.
* [[Evil Overlord]] - One of the [[Trope Codifier|TropeCodifiers]], especially for Western audiences.
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** He also surrounded himself with woefully inept military advisors. For example, his Artillery Commissar once angrily asked a subordinate [[Too Dumb to Live|what would they need artillery for]]. To be fair though, Stalin really did know that Hitler was going to invade sooner or later- his mistake was thinking it was going to be later.
*** However, he also surrounded himself [[Death World|with Russia.]] Do ''not'' invade Russia.
* [[Moral Myopia]]: One of the favorite Communist curse words was "Imperialist". Imagine! Trying to form an empire!
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: If any dictator could be described as this, it was Stalin. Hitler had a vision for what he wanted the world be to like, albeit an evil one. Stalin was largely apathetic to all the millions of people he killed, his goals were gain as much power as he could and make others suffer as he did. He would've never been content, as he became very nihilistic and apathetic after his wife's death. See [[A Million Is a Statistic]].
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice Job Breaking It Villain]] - Sending so many people to the Gulag camps ultimately worked against the Soviet Union. During WWII he killed off a lot of his experienced military officers, which was part of the reason that Germany was able to get so far.
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