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He was also a huge alcoholic and forced his close government members to get hammered with him every single day. It seems more like alcohol onset dementia to me to be honest but it’s hard to say, especially being from North America and trying to sort out the truth through layers and layers of capitalist propaganda.

Yeah lots of lies, pretty much all of what you wrote that is wrong. Stalin smoked a lot, he didn't drink excessively. Towards the end of his life that had take a toll, as did his habit of only sleeping 3 hours a day for years. The man worked himself to death.

As for the question of OP: No. Quite the opposite, he was almost too trusting towards his fellow people. One of the people who confessed during the great purge of having conspired to kill Stalin was defended by Stalin even while in jail.

Stories of Stalins bodyguard are also interesting, it took some serious convincing to use cars and not just walk through around all the time.

In the west the great Purge is presented as result of unfounded paranoia. Witnesses from the time and documents from the soviet archives (some very recently made available) tell another story. There was widespread organized sabotage, assassinations,collusions with foreign governments and several plots to coup the USSR. There also were excesses during the purge, do not get me wrong, but there were aboslutely threats to the state afot, too.

ProlesPod did cover the period with a truckload of sources if you are interest in further research: https://prolespod.libsyn.com/ Episodes 69 to 71.

Don't be ridiculous. Everyone knows Stalin was actually a stoner.