Stalin was Georgian. From a historical perspective, Stalin made contributions:

1. inherited Lenin's legacy and established the Soviet Union.

Second, led the Soviet people to establish a socialist system, completed socialist industrialization and socialist transformation, and made the Soviet Union the first power in Europe and the second power in the world in more than ten years.

Third, he led the Soviet people to a great victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Fourthly, according to the conception of Marxism-Leninism, the earliest socialist model in the world-Soviet-style socialism was established, which had far-reaching influence.

Generally speaking, during Stalin's period, the Soviet Union accelerated its development, greatly improved its national economic strength, and established a planned economic system and a people's welfare system, which ensured the fairness and justice of the vast majority of people. In Stalin's era, gambling, prostitution, drug abuse, gangs and other ugly phenomena were eliminated.

But Comrade Stalin also made serious mistakes. Stalin's mistake is:

First, autocracy and paternalism are serious. After the 1920s, Stalin was no longer modest and prudent, and turned a deaf ear to criticism and suggestions. Eliminate the opposition within the party and use a lot of administrative and powerful means. The Soviet Constitution of 1936 is for people to see, but democracy and legal system have not been implemented.

Second, the personality cult is serious. He created new Soviet-style privileges, a bureaucratic hierarchical society and new inequalities.

Third, pursue great power doctrine towards weak countries. During World War II, it established the Eastern Front with Nazi Germany and signed a neutral treaty with Japan. From the overall situation, the loss outweighs the gain. On the one hand, these compromises made the fascist forces more rampant, on the other hand, they also seriously damaged the reputation of the socialist Soviet Union. Third, it damaged the relationship between the Soviet Union and neighboring small countries.

1939- 194 1 year, the Soviet union wantonly invaded the territories of small countries in eastern Europe. At the Yalta Conference, engaging in great power diplomacy with Churchill and Roosevelt showed the arrogance of great power chauvinism, plundered China's outer Mongolia and seriously damaged China's sovereignty. At the end of World War II, China could not be treated equally. He defended his privileges in Northeast China like the old czar.

Fourth, after the war, the brutal treatment of fraternal countries and the forced implementation of the Soviet model caused long-term hidden dangers to the development of socialist countries in Eastern Europe, and also made a very bad start for the hegemonism of the Soviet Union.

5. Some of Stalin's domestic policies are too strict. The great counter-revolution in the 1930s wiped out some enemies, but killed many innocent people and caused irreparable losses.

Stalin is a controversial, far-reaching, extremely complicated and contradictory historical figure. Since 1956 February, Khrushchev made a secret report on Stalin's personality worship and its consequences at the 20th Congress of the Soviet Union, and completely denied Stalin, there has been a constant debate on Stalin's historical view and evaluation.

The mainstream public opinion in the former Soviet Union has almost one-sidedly shaped it into a tyrant and a psychopath for decades. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, although the mainstream Russian media still repeated various "stories" about Stalin in the former Soviet Union, some historians began to jump out of official comments and re-examine the Stalin issue.

Due to the economic recession in Russia in recent 10 years, people began to miss Stalin, because after all, as Churchill said, "Stalin accepted Russia that still uses wooden plows, but he left Russia equipped with atomic weapons." On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, a poll shows that after nearly 50 years of demonization, nearly one-third of people think that "everything about Stalin can be forgiven through the victory of the Great Patriotic War", and nearly half of Russians mainly hold positive comments on Stalin. In his inaugural speech, President Putin described Stalin as "a man who cannot be forgotten". Recently, the new Russian history curriculum began to make a new evaluation of Stalin. In short, as a historian said, "Stalin is a card. Any politician will beat him and he will be beaten."