Dictator
Dictator noun - A person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way.
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Stalin and dictator are semantically related In some cases you can use "Stalin" instead a noun "Dictator".
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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This trope also works if you substitute Hitler/Nazis with any other historical dictator (Joseph Stalin, Kim Jong-Il, Pol Pot, etc.), but those examples are less prevalent.
Source: Piggybacking on Hitler - Twilight of the Red Tsar is an AlternateHistory.com timeline by user Napoleon IV.In 1953,OTL Joseph Stalin, the dreaded Soviet dictator, perished when he suffered a stroke alone.
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In The Thirties Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin decreed the collectivization of agriculture, a change which brought untold suffering upon the peasant farmers of Russia.
Source: Film / A Pearl in the Forest
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