Of all the totalitarian sects operating on the territory of our country, this sect most of all, even outwardly, resembles the Communist Party. Perhaps that is why it manages to achieve such notable success throughout the post-Soviet space. The structure of Jehovah's Witnesses is remarkably similar to that of the CPSU with its "democratic centralism." Instead of divine services, the Jehovah's Witnesses[130] hold "party meetings," "party studies" lessons, and "party congresses" (annual "Congresses of Jehovah's Witnesses"), and in the eschatological perspective they expect a very concrete earthly paradise (read communism), where there will be plenty of food and little work, where everyone will be taken "according to his ability" and given "according to his needs." Neither God (Jehovah) nor Christ has a place in this earthly paradise.

Jehovah's Witnesses are known primarily for their active propaganda activities. More often than members of many other sects, they go from house to house, pester people on the streets, hand out their leaflets and magazines, obsessively offer to study the Bible together and invite them to their meetings.

They are also known because of their specific feature - a fanatical refusal of blood transfusions. They trace the prohibition against the use of blood to the book of Leviticus and to the 15th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, where the Apostolic Council recommends that new Gentile Christians abstain from eating animal blood, in particular. In 1961, the leaders of the sect proclaimed blood transfusion to be the same as eating and declared it a mortal sin. [131] Because of the ban on blood transfusions, a lot of children died, whose parents-Jehovah's Witnesses refused this simple medical procedure, as well as people who were unconscious, because sectarian relatives flatly refused to consent to it.

However, human life has never been a priority for the leadership of the sect. Initially, Jehovah's Witnesses were forbidden to vaccinate themselves, which, of course, led to a large number of serious diseases and deaths. It was not until 1952, after many countries had banned people who had not been properly vaccinated and vaccinated, that the Watch Tower Society lifted its ban. No one took responsibility for the people who died at the whim of the sect leadership. On the other hand, organ transplants were banned, which deprived many people of their last hope of saving their lives. The Jehovah's Witnesses, who needed an eye corneal transplant, were forced to refuse the operation and agree to the loss of sight. In 1980, organ transplantation was allowed, and again the leadership of the sect did not even consider it necessary to apologize for forcibly imposing on people a point of view that was now recognized as erroneous. [132] Why did hundreds of people die, and many others became blind? This question still remains unanswered. Perhaps in the near future, the leadership of the sect will allow Jehovah's Witnesses to receive blood transfusions. [133] And again the sectarians will accept this change without a murmur, and again no one will demand an answer to the simple question: for what did our brothers and sisters die?

All members of the sect consider themselves citizens of a single theocratic state, the Watch Tower Society, with its capital in Brooklyn (a district of New York), where their Bethel center is located near the Brooklyn Bridge (not only the Brooklyn headquarters are called sects, but also the administrative centers of Jehovah's Witnesses in all countries of the world): a complex of squat gray-brown cube-shaped buildings, very boring and reminiscent of either warehouses or barracks. One of them has a turret with crenellated edges at the top, on which is written: "Watchtower". This is their brain trust, headquarters, world government. There sits the "divinely established" supreme body, the Governing Corporation, which the sectarians call Jehovah's "Faithful and Discreet Slave" (ViBR), his only representative on earth.

The governing body appoints authorized representatives in the large zones, who supervise committees in the branches, to which the overseers in the areas report. Subordinate to them are circuit overseers, who supervise the elders in the congregations to which the rank and file members are assigned. Such is the rigid structure of the sect's management. However, all the local administrative bodies of the sect do not make any decisions on their own—they are only a transmission link for "the implementation of orders and directives from Brooklyn.

Here is a quote from a pro-Jehovah's Witness source that characterizes the structure of the sect. Let us pay attention to its internal contradictions:

The Witnesses have no paid clergy, and the congregations are led by elders. A typical congregation has about 10 °C of witnesses, including six elders and six ministerial servants. If a congregation becomes larger, it is divided into a number of congregations.

Twenty congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses make up one circuit, and ten circuits make up a province. Spiritual leadership is exercised by circuit and district overseers (the Greek word bishop literally means "overseer"). Overseers of Jehovah's Witnesses regularly visit congregations in their circuits and provinces, visiting them at least twice a year (and spending a week in each), which is why they are called "traveling overseers."

Special pioneers, missionaries, and traveling overseers are maintained at the expense of the religious organization. In 1998, the Watch Tower Society spent about $64.4 million to support them. [135]

In all, about 5,000 people work at U.S. Bethels, and more than 20,000 work at Bethels around the world. Most of them were trained at the "School of Theocratic Ministry" in Gilead (Pennsylvania), the main educational institution of the sect. The governing body located at Brooklyn Bethel anonymously makes all decisions regarding the management of the sect and the direction of its further development. In addition to the buildings described above, the sect owns at least ten skyscrapers nearby - in Brooklyn Height, one of the most prestigious and expensive areas of New York. In these buildings lives and works an apparatus consisting of more than three thousand people – the executive link of power (and absolute power) in the sect. But all decisions must be communicated to ordinary sectarians, and therefore the Brooklyn Bethel is first of all a publishing house in which all the propaganda products of the sect are created: articles are written, illustrations are drawn, music is recorded, laser discs are stamped. Products are printed here, and multi-million copies are immediately loaded onto transport for shipment to various countries of the world.

The living conditions of the Bethelites are the most spartan: the working day is not actually regulated, there are really no days off. Both single and married couples live in dormitories, the only difference is that married couples receive a separate room. As a long-time Bethel staff member assured me, each of his married colleagues had made the decision "absolutely voluntarily and without any coercion" not to have children. Since abortion is not officially recognized by Jehovah's Witnesses, there are two ways for married couples: contraception or surgical sterilization. Since the Bethelites earn only $100 a month for pocket money (they are fed in the common dining room and washed in the common laundry), and contraceptives are expensive, it can be assumed that the Watchtower slaves "voluntarily and without coercion" go to sterilization operations (since each of the Bethelites can declare a very low income, the cost of the operation can be covered by government social welfare funds).