The warrior state, which defeated the invasion of the united West, outlived its Supreme Commander by only 38 years - a meager term by historical standards. Stalin did not manage to build a state - a sacred temple. As it turned out, too much rested on the role of the individual in history, and without it it rapidly decayed and collapsed. And the revolutionary Dzhugashvili turned into a red emperor, punishing the detractors of Russia, bit by bit recreating and multiplying the greatness and glory of the Soviet empire, whose anthem began with the words "the great Russia has united forever. "Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin is a horror for domestic Russophobes and an enduring nightmare for "our Western partners."