Why did Communists promote Evolution?

[Thumpalumpacus]

[...] Nobel Laureate Vladimir Solzhenitsyn said.

His name is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, as you would have known had you read the goddamned headline on your linked article.

If you're making such a basic mistake in supporting your argument, how many other mistakes have you made? This is such an egregious error, it shows you don't even know your own source material.

It goes without saying that you're citing his opinion as if it's fact. But if the Russians were so religious before Communism, how do you explain the fall of the Tsar?

By the by, how many of his books have you read? Any? I'm a fan of his nonfiction writing -- his fiction not so much -- it's pretty leaden prose.