btw, after he was out of power, Khruschev supposedly “learned the gospel of John”, and spoke in terms of eternity
to his fellow (former) Politburo members.
As did, btw, Malenkov (Stalin’s first “successor”), who converted, used to weep and weep over the past (Stalin’s murders), and was eventually demoted even more,
because of his religious beliefs.
I think Gorbachev was a Christian, too. And Christianity has been in China for a long time and is growing rapidly there.
And as long as I’m listing them, Kosygin’s wife was a believer; and when he buried her, he tossed in an evergreen sprig—a symbol of eternal life; which was something no communist was supposed to do.
At Brezhnev’s funeral, his wife went up to the casket (as she would do in a Russian-style funeral), but she made the sign of the cross there. That part was edited out of the video given to the media.
IE, there were believers “in Caesar’s household”, even there.