Help me pls
why did people willingly accept the rule of joseph stalin

Brainwashing, and peer pressure. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.

His regime of terror caused the death and suffering of tens of millions. But this powerful man began life as the son of an alcoholic cobbler and a doting mother who sent him to study to be a priest.

The principle that george w. bush used to keep white house communications confidential would be executive privilege. but i maybe wrong : )