A few points I want to address...
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I will give credit to Stalin on one point, he never raised his voice or flew off the handle in a rage like Hitler would often do.
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He didn't fly off the handle.. but he threatened their families and almost always followed through on the threat or remembered the situation to be paid for at a later date...
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as bad as Stalin was, he generally speaking wasn't genocidal
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I think that this point can, as you say, be debated. During the collectivization, Stalin envisioned starving off the entire Ukrainian population to provide Living room to the people of Russian stock (ironically similar to Hitlers aspirations of Lebensraum...)
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itler never wanted war with the west. Infact he respected the British (early on, certainly).
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If you read quotes from Hitler following the Vienna Treaty with Chamberlain he considered the Brits to be bumbling idiots who were weak willed and easily manipulated...
@ Hottentauts point, I forget where I read it, one of my history books I'd presume..., but whereas Lenin openly advertised overthrowing other governments in favour of communism, Stalins theories were more based on stabilizing the Soviet Union itself before any help could be sent to other revolutionaries.
Thus as you said, Stalin was more scared of outside invasions and internal rebellion then of invading other countries..
Anyways, just my three cents
