“Right question: How does this differ from Joe Stalin and the KGB?”
I checked on Wikipedia - Stalin died a long time ago, and his country died over 30 years ago. Christopher Wray is still alive and keeping Biden enemies in jail, BY THE HUNDREDS.
There are Stalin statues all over Russia, and Putin reveres Stalin. He invokes Stalin from time to time. One thing for sure. Putin admires how Stalin had a total grip on the old USSR.
Stain was by the hundreds of thousands - no comparison.