`  == Association with the purges and holodomor ==  While Stalin may have had more political power after 1939 due to the cult of personality, he had no more power than a nowadays president before 1938. The Ferbuary-March Plenum of CC CPSU in 1937 led to the creation of Troikas that had legal authority to convict without a trial. Three members of Troika would judge an individual based on gathered testimonies, no lawyer would be present. This may be called ``repression`` under certain circumstances, which is debatable, but that's not the point.  The majority of CC CPSU voted for this and they had more political power than Stalin. So how come it only says that Stalin executed, persecuted, etc... And the sources are books written during Cold War era, on grants from USA. Or the sources are from ``unstable`` writes who name their books like ``Lenin, Stalin, Hitler``, placing Lenin, who, even according to wikipedia, was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, placing him on the same line with Hitler. Many people hate communism, fine. But citing those authors is giving their biased POWs. I can't go and read every book that is cited to debunk it, and even if I did, my edits would be canceled later.  Same thing about the Holodomor article. Only the theory that it was done by Stalin out of spite for the Ukrainians, etc, is talked about. Not a single word of a huge drought. The theory that it wasn't at all man made isn't even discussed there, it's just said that it exists.   The article about Stalin is very biased.  1- So what are we going to do about that? All articles say that Stalin orchestrated the Great Purge, when it was actually the parliament.  2- How did wikipedia come to this, that this widespread historical misconception has lodged itself into so many articles?     `