How would you describe Stalin as a ruler?

Question

How would you describe Stalin as a ruler?

Answer 1

He was a murderer as vile if not more so than Hitler.

Answer 2

Cruel paranoid narcissistic and a control freak

Answer 3

If I lived under his rule: Benign, intelligent, a great visionary for the people, a guiding light, a beacon for all the World's proletariat, a father to the people.

But as I don't - a very intelligent, shrewd, manipulative, cruel, despotic, educated, cunning, paranoid and murderous man.

Answer 4

Brilliant... but evil.

Answer 5

shrewd, ruthless, autocratic, vulgar, canny, eccentric, intolerant, paranoid (with reason), and indomitable

Answer 6

to put it bluntly, a paranoid tyrannical autocrat.