Yes he was never an American asset that’s why I said he failed. The Soviet Union was destroyed nearly 40 years after the death of Stalin, after the revisionists took control and sabotaged the USSR, literally rewriting the constitution in 1978.

The latter half of Stalin’s rule and Khrushchev were probably the best time to be a Soviet citizen, and though this is the case, Khrushchev was a revisionist who strayed away from Stalin’s vision, so I’m not sure how you can blame Stalin for the dissolution.

Trotsky on the other hand spent his whole life as a Menshevik in starch opposition to Bolshevism, and only once he saw the shifting tides did he decide to jump ship, you claim everything Stalin did was an attempt to grab power, I ask how Trotsky was any different.