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- The communist government targeted religions based on state interests, and while most organized religions were never outlawed, religious property was confiscated, believers were harassed, and religion was ridiculed while atheism was propagated in schools.
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The communist government targeted religions based on state interests, and while most organized religions were never outlawed, religious property was confiscated, believers were harassed, and religion was ridiculed while atheism was propagated in schools. [2]
- Joseph Stalin Grew Up with Religion
- The 'Godless Five-Year Plan'
- Churches, Synagogues, Mosques Made Into 'Museums of Atheism'
- Churches Reopen During World War II
- Campaigns Fail to Convert Majority to Atheism
On a personal level, Stalin was well-acquainted with the church. As a young man in his native Georgia, he had been first expelled from one seminary and then forced to leave another, after he was arrested for possessing illegal literature. As the young seminarian grew increasingly disillusioned with religion, “the all-encompassing nature of Marxism,...
The “Godless Five-Year Plan,” launched in 1928, gave local cells of the anti-religious organization, League of Militant Atheists, new tools to disestablish religion. Churches were closed and stripped of their property, as well as any educational or welfare activities that went beyond simple liturgy. Leaders of the church were imprisoned and sometim...
At the same time, the sacked churches, synagogues and mosques were transformed into anti-religious “museums of atheism,” where dioramas of clerical cruelty sat alongside crisp explanations of scientific phenomena. Icons and relics, meanwhile, were stripped of their mystique and treated as ordinary objects. The general public didn’t seem to have bee...
By 1939, barely 200 churches remained open, out of about 46,000 before the Russian Revolution. Clergy and laymen had been executed or placed in labor camps, while only four bishops remained “at liberty.” The Orthodox church was all but vanquished, explains Madsen—until World War II. After Naziinvaders reopened churches in Ukraine to encourage sympa...
Even as Stalin’s measures succeeded in sucking the center out of the Russian Orthodox church, they had minimal impact on people’s actual faith. As late as 1937, a survey of the Soviet population found that 57 percent self-identified as a “religious believer.” Stalin’s central belief—that every rational person would, as Miner puts it, “naturally dis...
- Natasha Frost
Severe, often violent repression of clerics and religious leaders and attempts to smash the organizational basis of religion are the best-known part of the history of communist religious policies. Communist regimes, however, have not been content to narrow and restrict religion on the supply side.
Dec 16, 2013 · Religious practices were deeply interwoven with the way of life of the peasantry, and the destruction of religion would facilitate the destruction of that whole way of life. The constitution was amended to include not only freedom of religious belief but also the freedom to propagate atheism.
However, since Marxist ideology as interpreted by Lenin [20] and his successors regarded religion as an obstacle to the construction of a communist society, putting an end to all religions (and replacing them with atheism [21]) became a fundamentally important ideological goal of the Soviet state.
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Oct 7, 2019 · Two leading Bolsheviks, Nikolai Bukharin and Yevgeny Preobrazhensky — both of whom were later expelled from the Party and executed under Stalin — set out a lasting vision of the Party’s anti-religious mission for a wider audience in their 1920 book, The ABC of Communism: “‘Religion is the opium of the people,’ said Karl Marx. It is ...
