Was it exaggerated to say Stalin was the Tsar clothed in Red (Communism)?

Answer 1

Perhaps an understatement.

He exercised more power and in a more brutal way than the Tzar ever did. He brought the entire nation under his power and had anyone that was really even suspected of being against him executed.

Answer 2

Red was the color primarily associated with Communism (which is why the USSR's flag was almost entirely red), and the Tsar was the hereditary ruler (somewhere between a King and an Emperor) of Russia before the Communists took over. So what the question is asking is: was Stalin just another autocrat after all?