Quote:Sent by his mother to the seminary in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), the capital of Georgia, to study to become a priest, the young Stalin never completed his education
Probably got his asshole stretched by the holy perverts. No wonder he despised them.
BTW, the French Revolution went after the church with a vengeance, too. The reason of course was the the church was a full partner in the suppression of the people and deserved to lose every head they lost.
It had nothing to do with "religion" and every thing to do with power.
As Jefferson sagely noted.
Quote:In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
Jefferson knew the situation in France but it was equally true of Czarist Russia.