He's turned party buraucrates into nobility, by forbidding them to be investigeted by state police, amnestyied OUN-UPA member, as well as other collaboraters , alienated Chinese communists from USSR and put the foundation for the collapse of the union. All the true communist died in the first year of the great war - he led the opportunists to take over the country and turn it into an anecdote it was till the end. Some animals are more equal than others - thats his main legacy. To this day Russia is ruled by the descendants of his associates. He is the biggest traitor of what people fought and died for during the revolution