Stalin is the reason Russia industrialized. To the extent Russians entered the modern age, it was due in large part to Jughashvili. We may not like it, but that's the way it is. By the way, it's very comical to see everyone use his propaganda name, "Stalin". How flattering to the so-called "man of steel". There's all kinds of scholarship on why a one-party state or some sort of authoritarianism is necessary for a Third World developing country, at least in early stages.