Given that this community has generally positive view of Stalin, I’m curious what he did that my comrades find irredeemable or out of line. Since it’s easy to criticize the Soviet Union from a western perspective, bonus points if you explain how this was detrimental to the development of socialism and/or communism.
What does ‘consolidate all power’ mean? He still must have plenty of allies left to run a whole country.
Also did Lenin ever name a preferred successor?