Your Stalin icon photo with the candle next to it is a photoshop.
Proof:
https://www.shiitman.ninja/2015/03/12/refleksii-po-povodu-ikony-stalina/
“drawn in photoshop by Comrade Muravedov”
I’m guessing the other one you posted with same URL on photo is photoshop too.
I’ve been orthodox many years, traveled extensively, never saw such an icon anywhere despite OPs claim they are “not uncommon in peoples homes”.
The only place it wouldn’t surprise me to see an “icon” like that would be in the tiny breakaway region of Ukraine, they do glorify communist and use orthodox symbols as a kind of ‘national’ identity. I have not been there myself.
I have seen people talking about silver linings of the soviet years, oddly mostly in ukraine. The people really glorifying it are overwhelmingly atheist from what I’ve seen.
In Ukraine I see widely different opinions within one family. I get the feeling their opinion is not cast in stone and that they are working things out.
I never saw anything glorifying communism from any church hierarch, some of them do speak out about the oppression and martydom from communists during soviet times.
Yup, the second stalin icon photo you posted from the same site is also photoshopped, by “teztigo”.
https://www.shiitman.ninja/act/ions/ikona-stalinaicon-of-stalin/
Here is the accompanying text, i guess this guy is a kind of counter culture anarchist mocking religion as is the website you sourced from:
“Group A.K.T. and a group of Stolen Bread visited the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, stole a brick there, were baptized in a concrete mixer, consecrated the icon of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, and put candles for Putin’s repose.”
The author of the website you are sourcing these photoshopped pics from describes himself as an anarchist.