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That has nothing to do with whether Stalin was a communist or not. Benevolent dictators have existed before, it does not change the system they are apart of. For example, there were kind and there were cruel Roman Emperors, but to say that the cruel ones (or the kind ones) were not emperors is obviously a fallacy. The same thing is true for communism. A communist leader can be kind or evil and still be a communist. Communism is an economic system (a stupid, slapped togethor, and unworkable one), not a state of mind that you call "caring about the people". And besides that. you are assuming Lenin and Kruschev were decent men. Obviously neither was the butcher or madman Stalin was, but that is not setting the bar very high. I believe Gorbachev was a decent man, but I don't know if he even really believed in communism.
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