I'll give it a brief try...
Stalin pushed communism... his version of communism... there seem to be almost as many kinds of communism as there are of christianity.
But this kind in particular had in it the atheist view.
Stalin pushed for his communism, atheism was just part of the package.
He didn't end up pushing communism because of atheism, he ended up pushing atheism, because of communism.
It wasn't atheism that drove him. It was the political system that he wanted to impose... it just happens that this system implies atheism.... maybe because he wanted to acquire the assets that belonged to religious orders... that part of history is lost to me... but again, it's not atheism that drives it.
Stalin pushed communism... his version of communism... there seem to be almost as many kinds of communism as there are of christianity.
But this kind in particular had in it the atheist view.
Stalin pushed for his communism, atheism was just part of the package.
He didn't end up pushing communism because of atheism, he ended up pushing atheism, because of communism.
It wasn't atheism that drove him. It was the political system that he wanted to impose... it just happens that this system implies atheism.... maybe because he wanted to acquire the assets that belonged to religious orders... that part of history is lost to me... but again, it's not atheism that drives it.