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Yes, he was still a dictator when he died. He was still Premier of the USSR and controlled the Communist Party and the Soviet secret political police so that he could and did impose his will on the USSR. Stalin was so much of a dictator that his own top government officials and friends feared that he would turn on them too out of his acute sense of paranoia so much so that some began to think they had to assassinate him to save themselves.

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