dead, so his aura was effectively “ethereal.” As his chosen successor,
Comrade Stalin was the righteous leader. To be loyal to Stalin was to honor
Lenin, and to question him was treason with Lenin. The Party, certainly
“omnipresent” and under totalitarian decrees, “omniscient” as well, was the
spirit of Lenin's ideals and of the nation. It was all across Russia, and every
patriotic Russian should aspire to be a part of it. The party controlled
everything—from personal life to the economy to war and revolution. It was
both the establishment and the revolutionary force all at once.
Thus, Stalin effectively replaced “The Father, The Son & The Holy Spirit” with
“Lenin, Stalin & The Communist Party.” This system did not fail him during
his lifetime, and allowed him to send millions of his own people—the
Russians and Georgians and the other enslaved nationalities—to horrible
slavery-until-death. The world outside Communism was already explained as
inherently decadent and corrupt, but Stalin would decide when the time was
right to take the righteous cause abroad with all the power of the State.
The Communists had their own eschatology—when the whole world would be
surrendered unto the one, true ideology and state of being—and their organs
of international collusion to spread their effective “holy war” abroad. In the
meantime, non-existent production surpluses and bumper crop yields were
announced in miraculous terms to the overwhelmed public as irrefutable
evidence of the correctness of the leader's way. A “counter-revolutionary”
enemy was created, of course, to explain those cases of Russians rebelling
against these absurd lies.
When lay Catholics publicly state their belief that Pope John Paul II “did not
know” about the Catholic clergy abusing children, it reminds us of the many
Russians who survived the Gulags and testified that when the police came
for them, in the dead of night or even broad daylight, they genuinely
believed that Stalin “did not know” what the State's police was doing. Stalin
was still "right," even if you were being sent to your death, for how could
anyone, in the Soviet mind, imagine replacing the scion of Lenin? “Stalin still
loves you”—oh yes, and large numbers of young Russians are still convinced
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