One of the honorifics that Stalin favored was "Universal Genius"

[Klaralven]

The same contradiction finds definite confirmation in the plebiscite, contrived by every possible means of corruption and intimidation for the purpose of perching Stalin at the top of an incredible scaffolding of lies and impostures, and of forging for him the renown of a great man, of a hero, "sans peur, et sans reproche" of a protean and universal genius. The hagiography composed in honour of the dead Lenin is nothing besides the canonisation of the living Stalin. Followed up with a spirit of consecutiveness rare in the U.S.S.R., the enterprise reveals a continued tendency towards the crystallisation of a personal power that has the characteristics at once of Tsarism, Bonapartism and Fascism, with Oriental methods and American pretensions.

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/souvar/works/stalin/ch10.htm

[comradebillyboy]

1. He was also dubbed "The Engineer of Human Souls".