Stalin
Someone as diabolic as Stalin could have come from everywhere, but many of the methods he used when ruling over the Soviet Empire show influences of his youth spent in the Caucasus: set one nationality against the other until both are destroyed, monumental use of terror, grandeur of the cult of personality, together with the use of jailed prisoners for gigantic public construction works remind of ancient Asian dictatorships. 1 - The liturgics nature of Stalins’ diatribes, a standard pattern of official communist rhetoric, bear the influence of the oriental orthodox church, witnessed in the Georgian Seminaries Stalin attended during his youth.2 - Time Magazine declared Stalin Man of the Year twice, in 1939 and 1943.
