Yes, it is just disgusting. As if the truth is something that can be decided by vote.
I'm waiting to see if Stalin really gets canonized or not. Some well-meaning people have been manipulated into thinking it is a good idea. But there is still strong resistance to the idea, especially among the older people who still remember the real history. The Communist party may have to do another generation's worth of "re-educating" before they can hope to pull this off. I believe they have the power to push it through now. But without enough support from the people, forcing it through would backfire on them. Too many people would be jarred out of the delusion about the supposed "symphony" between church and state in the neo-Soviet Union.
The Body of Christ is more than its hierarchs, whether those hierarchs are real or fakes. The Faith remains hidden in the 'catacombs' of human hearts. It's this that the Communist party has to tip-toe around. An older Russian woman, who speaks English rather well, told me,
"My father would always tell us: We need the Church. And the Church needs a priest. But the priest is just a man, and every man does things differently. You do what you know is right."
American converts are taught quite differently. We are told such "self-will" is "disobedience" and "prideful". Before the union I had a short conversation with a ROCOR-MP priest wherein I commented that I can't always tell between right and wrong. His answer was:
"You don't have to know. Just do what your spiritual father (ie: parish priest) tells you. Whether it is right or wrong will be on his head."
(Is it any surprise this was a short conversation?)
This, is maybe another reason why people stay in World Orthodoxy. They were never taught to follow or develop their own conscience in regard to the Faith, but instead to be "obedient".