@lain i dont think the opportunity for such a twist was able to appear during his lifetime, had he lived another 20-30 years. symbolically, i think he represented evil too much already, his death as a symbol was a built in prerequisite is what i believe. to change the generation's mind, he had to die first. alongside others. stalin's death was a start to such a completion of a prerequisite, and i consider the continuation of deaths of his entire cabinet to be necessary as well to turn towards a capitalist-dictatorship of sorts.

maybe i see it too much through an artsy fartsy PoV, where people's minds must be emotionally manipulated enough to believe in a new status quo's possibility before it can be enacted; maybe all it takes is just a good Stalin 2.0 to twist it into an alternate version of the dictatorship that there was.

with these two contradicting beliefs of mine simultaneously in mind i give a tldr answer:

tldr: doubt it's possibility greatly, rather a no. but cant rule it out to be impossible.