No. He was a dictator that killed millions of people under his regime.
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Sadly the answer is many millions. The regime in the USSR under Stalin is rivalled only by the Nazis in their inhuman teatment of people under their jurisdiction.
It is possible that Stalin could have continued it and industrialized under it, but it was too hard already under his current Communist regime. The NEP and its underlying capitalist values just could not let Stalin's power remain as effective.
Hitler was a dictator, he wanted the throne to be only his. while Stalin wanted Russia to be a democratic country.
Stalin’s rule in the USSR was clearly totalitarian, but he didn’t establish it as much as continue with the existing system that he took over.
The Cheka became the GPU, then the OGPU and then the NKVD under Stalin.