Stalin

It is rumored that the rise to power of Iosif Vissarionovič Džugašvili, Stalin, "Steel," was even averted by Mr. Lenin, as he considered the authoritarian aspirations of his likely successor dangerous and degenerative. The estimates, still uncertain, claiming dozens and dozens of millions of deaths on his behalf (Kulaks, dissenters, hierarchies suspected of insufficient loyalty to him), would have confirmed that fear. A socialism degenerated into Hitlerian nationalism.