No it is not. Marxism-Leninism is not Stalinism. Is not the propaganda spread about him, is the truth. It's the truth that he killed his old comrades, it is truth that he created goulags, those are a few of the things he did that are completely opposed to Marxism-Leninism. He created a false cult of personality that's why after his death the USSR started the famous De-stalinization, because they understood the mistake they had done by choosing a mentally sick person to rule their country. Lenin said it himself; he didn't want Stalin to be his successor. Stalin was not a communist, a communist would not want and be in the process of building with government money a giant monument of himself made in gold. That's not a communist. Stalin is not inspiration for communism but on the opposite a disgrace, he created a false image of what communist really is. Yeah, at the time we didn't know many things about him, my family (because i didn't lived it, im too young) used to believe in him, after his dead we realised it was a mistake, a capitalist pig taking advantage of a communist regime to make himself richer. Not what Lenin and Marx stand for.

"Esteemed Comrade Trotsky,

I earnestly ask you to undertake the defense of the Georgian affair at the Central Committee of the party. That affair is now under "prosecution" at the hands of Stalin and Dzerzhinsky and I cannot rely on their impartiality. Indeed, quite the contrary! If you would agree to undertake its defense, I could be at rest. If for some reason you do not agree, send me back all the papers. I will consider that a sign of your disagreement.

With the very best comradely greetings,

Lenin"

"Stalin is too rude, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes insupportable in the office of General Secretary. Therefore, I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin from that position and appoint to it another man who in all respects differs from Stalin only in superiority—namely, more patient, more loyal, more polite and more attentive to comrades, less capricious, etc. This circumstance may seem an insignificant trifle, but I think that from the point of view of preventing a split and from the point of view of the relation between Stalin and Trotsky which I discussed above, it is not a trifle, or it is such a trifle as may acquire a decisive significance." - V.I. Lenin, January 4, 1922

"Comrade Stalin, having become General Secretary, has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution." - V.I. Lenin, December 25, 1922