According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin's_poetry
Stalin was a complete hipster.
[SPOILER:b05c216377]Maybe thats why he stopped killing people for a brief moment after Hitler started, because Stalin did it before it was cool[/SPOILER:b05c216377]
Edit: Didnt realize the link was dead my apologizes, here is the info you need to know

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Before he became a Bolshevik revolutionary and the ruler of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin was a promising amateur poet.

Reception of his poems: "were widely read and much admired. They became minor Georgian classics, to be published in anthologies and memorised by schoolchildren until the 1970s (and not as part of Stalin's cult; they were usually published as "Anonymous").