Party in the USSR

[Crandar]

If the ranks had been filled Stalin would have attacked first.

Not really, Stalin was the opposite of Trotsky, absolutely terrified by the prospect of a foreign war.

I'm afarid you are under a delusion of a bad Stalin who perverted the ideas of good Lenin. The massacres (including those of the commoners, who started to rebel against severe economic measures imposed by him, and priests) that Lenin sanctioned don't reflect a great credit on him. I would say that being well-meaning at the outset he got into the usual practice of violence to keep the power. Far too often have we witnessed that (for more details refer to "The Lord of the Rings").

You mean the Red Terror? Yeah, things usually go wrong, during civil wars, but still not even close to Okhrana's pogroms. Or Petlura's...