The Zars Admired Stalin

Stalin was about power. And so if you had pangs of conscience, if you worried about arresting, let alone assassinating that as murdering people, summarily executing them, he had less respect for you. He loved the Zars who were powerful and showed their teeth. So of course Ivan the Terrible, he had a fascination with Ivan all the way through the end of his life. Peter the Great as you mentioned, Alexander, of course Alexander the first got to Paris as Stalin pointed out when they congratulated him when he elided in Berlin in 1945. As well though we should remember that there were monarchs or shaws of the Persian Empire of medieval Georgia and he admired many