Is Joseph Stalin A Good Leader

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I believe Machiavelli is right to an extent. A king’s job is to protect and lead his people at most costs. All leaders are human, too, so they make mistakes and can’t put everything on the line for his people. He/she also has morals just like anyone else. When a ruler doesn’t have morals, you get people like Joseph Stalin. He was effective, but it was always utterly immoral. He is responsible for 20 million people’s deaths which were mostly his own people. He was intolerant of any kind of opposition.

Virtue and effectiveness are both needed to have a good leader. Virtues are necessary because if a leader has no morals his people suffer the consequences. As I previously mentioned Joseph Stalin, he had so little morals that 20 million lost