Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvilli, better known as Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, is the overarching antagonist of the Command & Conquer franchise, serving as the main antagonist of Command & Conquer: Red Alert, the first installment in the series.
He is the oppressive Communist dictator of the Soviet Union, like his real-life counterpart, who seeks to conquer all of Europe.
He was portrayed by the late Eugene Dynarski.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
Background[]
- Just like his real-life counterpart, he is a totalitarian dictator who either kills or imprisons those who dissent, oppose or may seem to potentially oppose him in any way.
- Shortly after Vladimir Lenin's death, he gained more power and influence in the Soviet Communist Party and initiated a totalitarian rule even worse than his predecessor's. He also expelled Leon Trotsky of the party and had him deported simply because they had different opinions.
- The confiscations of grain and other food by the Soviet authorities under his orders contributed to a famine between 1932 and 1934, especially in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and North Caucasus, and resulted in millions of deaths.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert[]
- He ordered and committed numerous war crimes, including the deployment of Sarin gas against Polish resistance, ordering massacres of the Torun and Grunyev revolutions with children included, the slaughter of various villages during an invasion of Greece with the usage of tactical nukes on them, and a launch of nuclear missiles across Europe (at least at London and Paris), which the Allies managed to disable.
- He is driven purely by his desire to expand the USSR across all of Europe. He has no regard for the lives the war took, including the ones of his own people.
- In the Soviet campaign he seemed to get along with Gradenko, as they were having fun drinking, but it is more out of professionalism rather than genuine friendship. Moreover, he never mentioned Gradenko nor shown any reaction after the latter was poisoned by Nadia, which only confirms that Stalin never truly cared about him in the first place.
- In the Soviet campaign, he gave the first order to shoot his best commander for failing to capture the chronosphere, and when he found out that Kukov was responsible for this failure, he angrily broke the latter's neck.
- He has shown no love or sympathy towards anyone, and when he started to lose the war against the Allies, he began lashing out in anger at his subordinates, to the point where some of them, like Vladimir Kosygin, decided to defect to the opposing side.
- While he has some comedic moments like happily dancing and humming a song at the end of Soviet campaign, they don't detract from his overall heinousness and is taken entirely seriously all other time.
Trivia[]
- He, Anatoly Cherdenko and Yuri are the only Command & Conquer Pure Evils (Coincidently they're all from the "Red Alert" series of the Command & Conquer franchise).
- He is the only fictionalized version of Joseph Stalin to be Pure Evil.