Many believe that it was Karl Marx, the man who developed the idea of socialism. You must admit they look shockingly alike. On the surface they also think alike. Marx believed in a society where everything is divided up among all people within the society.
Nobody is above anyone else and everyone has a job to do.
Papa Smurf is the leader of a similar society. The problem with this is that Lenin does not have that nice white bushy beard his is more pointy and red. if Papa Smurf was not modeled after Marx or Lenin he must have been modeled after Stalin. I feel that Stalin is most likely the man that Papa Smurf was modeled after. Marx believed more in the system of socialism not communism. Well, under both systems everything is supposedly shared equally among all members of the society however, under the socialist system there are free elections for the leadership of the society whereas under the communist system there are no elections.