The whole anti stalin thing that happened after his death also helped with ruining his image both in the USSR and outside. Kind of a stupid move by :corn-man-khrush: considering Stalin was not only responsible for industrialising the USSR, he also led the war against Germany and saved the slavic people from extermination.

:corn-man-khrush: also exaggerated a lot of crimes he blamed on stalin which are still taken as fact today.