A thread of similar ideology is made manifest

The question is did Stalin copy the institutional church or does the institutional church copy Josef Stalin.

Stalin and his henchmen refined it to a fine art the phenomenon of making people they did not approve of into 'non-persons'. They were stripped of everything, but not even Stalin could take away their integrity.

It seems elements in the institutional church, the lackeys, the 'liturgical lap-dancers', the men of so-called 'orthodoxy', use every trick in the game to ridicule those they have deemed 'non-persons'.

At least Stalin never claimed any of the 'God stuff'.