>>212Stalin wasn't authoritarian to start with. He was a robber guy, and his hero was Koba - a Georgian Robin Hood character. In fact, Stalin even had a nickname Koba. He rejected the Russian Orthodox Church education, preferring to fight to freedom instead. Stalin was mistreated and beaten by an authoritarian drunkard dad in his youth. Young Stalin looks like your typical zoomer hipster, developing web software in Ruby.
And that free spirited leader has turned into a monster with time.