Kill and torture enough non-believers in the name of Santa and the rest will fall in line. Keep it up for a generation or two and you have yourself an established religion.
In Russia you can still find religious icons of Joseph Stalin.
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In Russia you can still find religious icons of Joseph Stalin.
![[Image: news_7473_n.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=russia-ic.com%2Fimg%2Fnews%2Fnews_7473_n.jpg)
![[Image: news_7456_n.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.russia-ic.com%2Fimg%2Fnews%2Fnews_7456_n.jpg)
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw


