Same in China with Mao , his mug is plastered all over the place. I guess the story about Stalin is right .
Stalin was asked by a female dinner guest from America about his policy of brutality. To illustrate his point Stalin called for a live chicken to pluck it in front of her. When he put the chicken down it ran away, but when he put food on the floor it ran back to him and then, after eating, it hid between his legs. This explained Stalin was the theory of how he gained obedience by brutality, for if you brutalize someone they will follow you about for food, he declared.