Stalin is comparable to Musk in that sense.

Christ. Musk is, if anything, more comparable to Henry Ford.

Billionaire car magnet with whole municipal governments in his pocket who wrecked public transit and spread antisemitism all over Europe? That's not the editor and chief at Pravda.

If you were to put Stalin anywhere in contemporary US politics, I'd say he's comparable to Shyam Sankar - the Palantir CTO who was recently granted the rank of Lt. Colonel in the US military. Or, perhaps, just straight up comparing him to Peter Thiel minus all the buggery.

In love with technology and factories, but too focussed on advancement no matter the human cost. Everything was about efficiency.

Silicon Valley has swarms of these guys. Most of them aren't constantly pissing themselves from too much Ketamine.

If he hadn't been, would the USSR survived? That focus on technology, factories, and efficiency, no matter the cost, seems like the right approach when there's Nazis at your doorstep, conquering all of Europe and conducting mass exterminations.