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[Thumpalumpacus]

I said this already to him Stalin killed for political reasons. The only real reason why Stalin killed people is he was a very paranoid person. But still why does Huggy think there is a link between atheism and communism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist%E2%...st_atheism

Marxist–Leninist atheism (Russian: Марксистско-ленинский атеизм) is a part of the wider Marxist–Leninist philosophy (the type of Marxist philosophy found in the Soviet Union), which rejects religion and advocates a materialist understanding of nature. Marxism-Leninism holds that religion is the opium of the people, in the sense of promoting passive acceptance of suffering on Earth in the hope of eternal reward. Therefore, Marxism-Leninism advocates the abolition of religion and the acceptance of atheism. Marxist-Leninist atheism has its roots in the philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach, G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Vladimir Lenin.

That's a far cry from ensconcing it into law as a matter of public policy, which the Soviets never did.

From their 1936 Constitution:

ARTICLE 124. In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the state, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of antireligious propaganda is recognized for all citizens.

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russ...ons04.html

Now, in Stalinist Russia, where rule by fiat was the word of the day, such guarantees probably weren't worth much. But Solzhenitsyn, who spent eight years in the GULag system in three different camps as well as a sharashka, mentions only the Anabaptists as victims singled out for their religion.