The confusion regarding Stalin's position on the issue stems from the fact that, after Lenin's death in 1924, he successfully used Lenin's argument – the argument that socialism's success needs the support of workers of other countries in order to happen – to defeat his competitors within the party by accusing them of betraying Lenin and, therefore, the ideals of the October Revolution.
史達林地位的混亂狀態，源自他在1924年列寧死後，成功利用列寧的論點——社會主義需要其他國家的工人才能成功——以順利擊敗黨內的競爭對手：指控他們背叛列寧，並因而背叛了十月革命的理想。