Yeah it's a mix. But autistic people generally have a hard time detecting sarcasm, and in general don't understand the concept of jokes very well. Eric Striker was at one point claiming that Nick supports Israel. TRS people literally just make things up outright in a way that most people on the internet wouldn't do - TRS has isolated themselves from any conflict to the point that their audience is just a bunch of morons in a skinner box. But I suspect there was a Nick joke, "of course I support Israel! They're our greatest ally!" which these really weird people either can't understand or pretend not to understand.
As far as Stalin - I don't know how anyone could study 20th century history at all and not be in awe of Stalin's rise to power. It's definitely a lot more interesting than Hitler's rise to power. The Beerhall Putsch was literally just a total mistake that did not have any benefits at all, and probably should have completely destroyed Hitler's chances at power. he did a very good job organizing after that, however, but the main lesson of Hitler's rise to power is not to do a Putsch, but instead to influence the government.
Hitler was obviously much better at doing government, but all of that stuff is basically figured out at this point. The interesting issue is how to get into power, and therefore both Lenin and Stalin - as well as other communists, like Castro and Mao, the other latins and Asians - are much more important to study now than really any right-winger.
Again, this should be obvious, but these people are both stupid and dishonest. If they were only one or the other, there wouldn't be a problem.
I think it's useful to look at Stalin as analogous to Napoleon, sort of a 20th century Napoleon. You could also call him a successful version of Napoleon. He wasn't as seasoned a combat vet as Napoleon. But like Napoleon, he astutely maneuvered himself to secure the reigns of power in a power vacuum left by a revolution, and used them to reign in the excesses of his respective revolution, just like Napoleon.
Lenin's grasp on power was always a lot more tenuous than Stalin's. Lenin, the big jew himself, was actually shot by a Ukrainian jewess in 1918, and never recovered from that. In the years that followed he had a series of debilitating strokes and TBH, he was pretty much the most enfeebled Soviet leader there was after maybe Brezhnev, even though the commies always present a much more invigorated and animated view of him in hindsight, he was really just a cripple who sat around a Moscow apartment giving interviews and writing about abstract theories for most the time he was leader. It wasn't until the late 1920s long after Lenin had died, and after Stalin threw his visor into the ring for succeeding Lenin, and won, that power really got consolidated into anything formidable, as did the country itself.
And in the end it seems Stalin started noticing certain things which would have been helpful had he noticed them 10 years earlier. Or at least, had he acted on them in unison with Germany 10 years later. Today's communists are as caved in head about race and the JQ as they are everything else. But Stalin recognized that an entire race or ethnicity of people could hold a "counter-revolutionary spirit;" that they could become a fifth column, and he was not above deporting millions of them to Siberia and central Asia to mitigate their influence in jurisdictions which were more important.
Stalin had long said off the cuff remarks about jews in private, and long disappeared and deported individual jews who became problematic. But when Israel was created in 1948, the jews appointed Golda Meir as ambassador to the USSR, and she was sent to Moscow, and the jews in Moscow rolled out the red carpet for her, not to make a pun, really on their own volition. The jews wanted to make a big show of this on their own outside of Stalin.
And if we could have only been flies on the wall when Stalin started getting all these different reports about jews doing this and that. That's when he denounced "rootless cosmopolitans," started knocking off all the antifa jews in the Eastern Bloc leftover from WWII, and rumor has it, was working on finalizing a plan to deport all jews in the USSR to the border with Manchuria in the Winter of 1953 when he cohencidentally died just six weeks after having accused jewish doctors of targeting Soviet leadership in high profile assassinations, which all the jews and allies will of course dismiss as a "canard," along with the "rootless cosmopolitan," and "dual loyalty" things. Though I suppose dual loyalty technically is, because they are now and have only ever been loyal to themselves.