Agree with @BPeasant. Although, admittedly there’s little value in ranking megalomaniacal dictators, nevertheless I don’t can’t see how Stalin is “an incompetent version of Hitler.” First, well, Stalin did defeat Hitler. As well as vastly expand his empire with nary a setback (until long after he was dead). He also successfully committed his vast, horrible misdeeds and did not suffer for them: competent, that. And in the present day, he’s even being historically rehabilitated by his current, somewhat gentler incarnation in the form of Putin. Also, what a head of hair!
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