 Li Zhengcheng (李正誠, ca.1920-1990) replaced Isaac Wei as the main leader of the TJC and lead it into joining the Three-Self Patriotic Movement as the government had requested.Scholar Melissa Inouye reports that, fearing persecution, the leaders mourned the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 claiming that he was now in Heaven.One even stated that “Comrade Stalin has saved many tens of thousands of people, more than Jesus.” Persecution, however, came, both before and during the Cultural Revolution Li Zhengcheng spent more than twenty years in jail.