Despot
Stalin
Stalin noun - Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953).
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Andrzej Wajda's Danton portrays Robespierre as a Stalin-like despot who demands that Jacques-Louis David remove pictures of political opponents from paintings.
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Its Darklord and military despot, Vlad Drakov, essentially combines Hitler's manic charisma & rages with Stalin's brutal paranoia and coats it all with Vlad the Impaler's sadism, complete with demanding nightly impalements as "dinner theater".
Source: Commie Nazis
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