At first, lenin... then lenin died and Stalin screwed with the succession and seized power.
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Joseph Stalin had informers in among Lenin's secretaries who told him about the Testament. Stalin got control of it and never let it be published.
They both had great impacts on Russia. Lenin played a part that wanted to have everyone equal when Stalin tricked people to get in control. Stalin got to power and dictated, Lenin was a revolutionary who believed in communism. Stalin wanted socialism.
Lenin and Stalin gave the Soviet Union an autocratic (Totalitarian) Communist Government. Stalin kills more people than Lenin did. (Because Stalin is even more cruel than Lenin, who is somewhat more humane and Stalin took place as leader of USSR for nearly 30 years while Lenin died within 5 years after assumed as leader of USSR.)
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Stalin never "joined the Soviet Union." Vladimir Lenin created it in 1922 when Stalin was one of several Commissars in Lenin's government. After Lenin died Stalin and others took over running the Soviet government. Later he had total control of it. Why did he take control over it. Stalin was always power hungry and controlling. He saw his chance at surviving Lenin after Lenin had his disabling strokes and stepped in to take that control of and exercise power over a country.