Did Stalin want to achieve 'communism'?

[Ralph Llama]

The Death of Stalin by Armando Iannucci looks like an interesting take on things.

is splendid, not least in its drawing out of the significance of its historical errors. Nevertheless, his critique omits the following consideration, which points out a positive merit of the film: the film’s sardonic irony implements Stalin’s own psychopathic misuse of facts and interpretation to depict him

Cant wait !

 

[Kaka Tim]

Didn't Stalin have a fixation on the strongman myth? (I think there might be a clue in the name ...) He commissioned a film about Ivan the Terrible as he identified with him (ruthless champion of the peasants smashing away the old order of the aristocracy or some such)
Ultimately - and i don't claim to be an expert - isn't he just yet another megalomaniacal, paranoid totalitarian despot? Seeing his own self as being inseparable from the motherland/the state - same old shit like Gaddaffi, Ceausescu, Saddam Hussien (or Napoleon) but on a bigger scale. I don't think ideology comes into it in any meaningful sense - GDP, coal and steel production, literacy levels, tonnes of grain harvested - are all the product of his far sighted, firm leadership and any measures taken to protect and further state power are justified.

 

[seventh bullet]

Nope.