You can find the same stories about Stalin coming from his "fans". How he recommended one person to attend to some baptist church to learn English. Or stories about North Korean leaders, what wise things they teach workers when they fail.
There were attempts to replace Christian symbols with Communist symbols. Like they replaced Christian trinity with Communist trinity: Lenin, Marx, Engels, for example. So they had to make up lots of legends about Lenin to make him new Jesus. How he was smart and when he was in jail he wrote with some sort of juice that made his texts invisible for guards.
