Lenin was the man in charge, and he was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church...
...which is irrelevant, BTW, because all of these men had become atheist-bolsheviks long before they were in a position to order anyone's execution in Soviet Russia.
“Lenin was the man in charge”
Wrong again - Kaganovich and Yagoda targeted Christian Ukraine well after Lenin’s demise - including German colonists living in Ukraine, they killed 12 million by 1934 and a bunch more by 1939.
And were it not for the Birchers, they would have killed more.
I say thank heaven for the Birchers since no one else was doing it.