Yes, and have felt that this was Stalin’s use of islamics, though he trusted no-one. To get rid of all the jews from the original Politburo— the ones who knew about his deviousness toward Lenin (who used the jews in the same way as islam, for the organizational discipline and then to break them).
Stalin used islamocommunists to eliminate jews. He and Stalin were rather different parts of the Leftist spectrum— hitler less Left than the commies, but both Left, and anti-semitic. Seems to fit since Semites are the root culture that divided.
Should add that the original Politburo (some of them, the early ones and their factions) knew that Stalin was an informer and a thug for the Tsar’s Ohkrana secret police. He lived in fear of them until he eliminated every possible person who might know, and a whole lot more who didn’t know a thing... just to be sure.
The black humor look at Stalin’s psychoses— is the comedy “Red Monarch” very funny in a macabre way. And appalling use of the State in all human thought. Orwell would approve of this comedy.