The captain of a team in the sense of his Stalinist clique. No dictator is the sole god emperor, no dictatorships work like that. I know not a single credible historian who doesn't describe Stalin as a dictator. The CIA there wasn't calling it a blossoming democracy.
This does not diminish the accomplishments of the USSR.
:chad-stalin: Did you think that the United Soviet Socialist Republics is not democratic?
CIA document on Stalin: "Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely the captain of a team-..."
The captain of a team in the sense of his Stalinist clique. No dictator is the sole god emperor, no dictatorships work like that. I know not a single credible historian who doesn't describe Stalin as a dictator. The CIA there wasn't calling it a blossoming democracy.
This does not diminish the accomplishments of the USSR.