Not astonishing at all. To paraphrase Stephen A. Douglas, it is the logical, inevitable outcome of the race to socialism. And people in the USA will eventually take this view too. Lenin would have been surprised at the pace of his ideas catching hold on gullible people.
It’s one thing to hear it prophesied....read history; but to be watching insanity infect mankind, like some global influenza pandemic, remains...astonishing...in spite of all I know, and expected.