I Blame Communism
Banned
He'd probably be assasinated at some point in history anyway.
There is a theory I remember hearing somewhere that Stalin's OTL death was quietly organised by the senior Soviet administration and his doctors as his mental health declined and he became more reckless in his plans, seeing American conspiracy everywhere and becoming prepared to launch nuclear war. If that's not true, it seems to me that Stalin, a paranoiac, would have undergone such a decline and been so offed not long after anyway.