How can you know that about the US? They were more industrialised and better equiped than the USSR. And my point is that even when Britain was alone (something that the USSR never was), and very much under the threat of invasion, they didn't need a dictatorship to get things done. This is a very false and dangerous notion, that dictatorships perform better in war. History has not vindicated this.
Particularly about US - because they were unprepared for massive land war, for obvious reasons. If they had several years to prepare, yes, their potential would allow them to defeat Germany. Britain was never attacked by huge land forces, like USSR. Threat of invasion and invasion are different things.
Dude, Russia was not defeated in WW1. Lenin surrenderd because he was taking money from the germans. There is no way the germans would have taken Moscow in WW1; 0% chance.
Yes, Russia was destroyed from the inside. What does it change? Was such scenario possible in 1941? If not, why?
The "superpower" thing is overblown. Russia has always been mighty, and probably always will be. During the Soviet times, it was only a match for the USA in military terms (and only after the mid 60's). As far as the economy goes, it was completely dwarfed by the USA, always.
How it is become possible, that during hard time, liberal progressive ruler let his country be destroyed and demolished, while cruel dictator save it and left much more powerful than it was before his rule?
Russia has always been mighty, and probably always will be.
I hope so.
Oh, and soviet ideology very much implied killing the enemies of the people.
No. Do you know the difference between ideology and criminal codex?
Do you think that Hitler's is one "sane" ideology?
Stupid question.
Why did Stalin chose the chechens? Well, why did he choose the Ukrainians, Poles, Koreans, Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Ingush, Balkars, Karachays, Meskhetian Turks, Finns, Bulgarians, Greeks, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, and Jews?
Stalin deported Jewish nation? That's something new to me

Really, why he would deport Germans, Finns, Chechens, and not Russians, Belorussians? Was there problems with, for example, massive Chechen collaboration or no?