why did choose stalin?

Question

just wondering, there must have been other ppl that the people can choose to follow

Answer 1

No one chose Stalin. In the first Soviet government with Lenin as prime minister in 1917, Stalin was named commissar for minorities (he was a Georgian). As the 1920's wore on, Stalin inserted himself as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was not the president of the party, nor president of the Soviet Union, nor prime minister. He increasingly aggregated power to himself by unofficial means until Trotsky was driven out of the country in the late 1920's. Lenin died in 1924. Before that, Lenin said, "The party members should find a way to remove comrade Stalin." In 1934, Stalin was finally able to act. He ordered the assassination of Sergeir Kirov, the communist party boss in Leningrad. He blamed the murder on a counter-revolutionary movement by Trotsky. He ordered a purge of all the "old bolsheviks" in a series of "show trials" in the late 1930's.

Answer 2

is your question why did russia choose to follow stalin? well they didnt really. lenin came to power in 1919 after the Bolshevik revolution. when he died, the two options where trotsky and stalin. neither were paticularily desirable but stalin was the successor. he was a dictator and ruled with force. russia didnt have a choice.

Answer 3

Stalin seized power and either killed all those who opposed him, or sent to Siberia.
Communism is a democracy as you appear to be alluding to. You fought those in the way, or killed them to get to the top.