Particularly as Stalin himself wilfully ignored intelligence about the imminent Operation Barbarossa, for example from the agent Richard Sorge. And he executed

Particularly as Stalin himself wilfully ignored intelligence about the imminent Operation Barbarossa, for example from the agent Richard Sorge. And he executed hundreds of capable officers in the 1930s, replacing them with incompetent yes-men, which greatly degraded Soviet defences. In Western corporate terms, Stalin would be a boss who carried out mass layoffs of his most competent employees, ignored the threat of a competitor, and only survived due to the hard work and sacrifice of his remaining underlings, while taking credit for their work. All in all, he'd probably be quite a good modern American CEO.