Talin acted not through persuasion, explanation, and patient cooperation with people, but by imposing his concepts and demanding absolute submission to his opinion. Whoever opposed this concept or tried to prove his viewpoint, and the correctness of his position, was doomed to removal from the leading collective and to subsequent moral and physical annihilation. . . . Many prominent party leaders and rank-and-file party workers, honest and dedicated to the cause of communism, fell. –Nikita Khrushchev,
1956

Based on this passage, what was Khrushchev’s view of Stalin?

Stalin was too weak-willed to be an effective leader.
Stalin primarily used persuasion to gain the support of others.
Stalin remained open to criticism when he became the party’s leader.
Stalin harmed anyone who did not agree with him and his policies.