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[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

His support was based on brainwashing his population and using fear tactics so anyone who criticized Stalin was sentenced to Gulag.

So in a way, it was completely artificial or forced why people loved him.

[–]JapsDoEverythingRiteBlack Nationalist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Brainwashed or no, people still had to believe in Stalin to enforce his decrees and maintain his gulags.