From the cited source:
Stalin is an uncommon figure in modern economic history: a dictator with absolute power who also controlled one of the largest economies in the world. Since it is virtually impossible to separate Stalin's wealth from the wealth of the Soviet Union, this combination has led multiple economists to nominate him as one of the richest people of all time.
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While that money didn't belong directly to Stalin, he had the ability to leverage blah blah blah peepee poopoo
Neolib ghouls are absolutely wild.
"Stalin was dictator of an entire nation so all of its wealth was effectively his."
The same person: "Most of Elon's wealth is tied up in investments. He isn't as wealthy as that number makes him sound."
NASA doesn't have the money for the solar collector program, the comet interception program, or the asteroid sample survey program and canceled all three of those and more, but that nearly-exact amount of money then subsidized a car commercial in space. :agony-minion: