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What's your favorite work of Stalin's?
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This isn't how the soviet system worked.
He was one of FIVE people on the upper most council, and hundreds and then thousands on the councils that reported to it. He had exactly the same powers that the other people on this council had. The USSR is not a presidential system, there was never one single leader of it.
But don't take my word for that, here is a quote directly from the CIA's declassified documents: