User blog comment:Scrawland Scribblescratch/Robespierre to Hitler: Really Forceful Dictatorships/@comment-1738490-20120923184546/@comment-32656-20120924025156

...You do realize, Guns, that there isn't any evidence of that, right?

Stalin did actually believe in communism. But, as Lurk noted, his paranoia got the better of him.