Stalin labeled "Third rate intellectual"

As other comrades have already said, Stalin's work is simple. Reading Lenin, Marx, Engels, ect. is complicated and legnthy. Stalin's writings were mostly translating what the intelectuals wrote into the venacular. That being said, Stalin didn't have a major intelectual contribution (i.e. the vanguard party, the role of unions, ect.) like Lenin or Marx. I'm suprised that his works are more circulated in communists circles because of their readability.

Stalin didn't have the breadth of education or the speculative mind that Marx and Lenin possessed, but he had a knack for appropriating the most important points of the matter at hand and summarizing it in simple terms without losing any of the essence. Stalin never claimed to be anything but the preserver and continuator of Lenin's legacy. I see Stalin as more the faithful Peter in this story, whereas Trotsky was more the finicky, argumentative Paul figure.

If you label Stalin as uneducated criminal then you stand in solidarity with low-grade Russian liberals. Why are low-grade? Because they are low-grade anti-communist propagandists. Their target audience is people who are poorly versed in history. That's about as propagandists in the U.S. who call Guevara a murderer and a terrorist.
But I think that it's not so easy to find reliable materials on Stalin in English. Several historical articles to research on this topic were published in Russian. None of these historians who wrote these articles that I read can be considered pro-Stalinist. The articles even present negative evaluations such as one of them was written from the Orthodox perspective (Stalin promoted materialism and Marxism when he was in seminary but I have noticed that some comrades here even call him a "priest"). But all historians agree that he was well educated and he had high intellectual ability. It should be noted that he was well educated at the expense of self.
So I'm with Comrade proletarian there. Also I might add that Stalin was well versed in the national question and that his contribution (he was appointed to the post of Narkomnats - People's Commissar of Nationalities). Note that Guevara was a Stalinist and highly valued Stalin's works. Not to mention that Stalin's works were highly valued by Lenin.

Comrade, my post wasn't addressed to you personally. It was addressed to those who believe in such nonsense.