Probably not the best socialist leader you can get (that would probably be impossible anyway), but he saved millions of lives, with a much worse leader in charge of the ussr ww2 could probably have been lost. Undoubtedly, history needed him, he liberated the people of eastern europe and tried to stabilise the union and modernised it more to the standards of the time.
Probably not the best socialist leader you can get (that would probably be impossible anyway), but he saved millions of lives, with a much worse leader in charge of the ussr ww2 could probably have been lost. Undoubtedly, history needed him, he liberated the people of eastern europe and tried to stabilise the union and modernised it more to the standards of the time.