Well they mixed religion with paramilitary training. Tear you down so they can fill your head with crap. I can understand secular pluralistic military training because it is an unfortunate part of reality that our species is tribal. But this is typical of religion, when it can prove it's credibility, it co opts other aspects of society to fake credibility.
They also either attack science to say " see, so therefor my god exists", or they co-opt science and say "see this matches science".
Stalin before he took power had a theology background in Russian Orthodoxy. Even if one claims he was an atheist at his rule, he used the same godlike rule the god of the bible used. And it certainly was easy for him to manipulate a mostly Russian Orthodox population. The other myth is that Russia became atheists when he took power. Religion never left Russia. The state simply didn't want anyone competing with the one party state. After the Soviet Union fell the churches went back to being open, but they never left. Russian Orthodoxy was still the pet religion of the state as long as it knew its place.
They also either attack science to say " see, so therefor my god exists", or they co-opt science and say "see this matches science".
Stalin before he took power had a theology background in Russian Orthodoxy. Even if one claims he was an atheist at his rule, he used the same godlike rule the god of the bible used. And it certainly was easy for him to manipulate a mostly Russian Orthodox population. The other myth is that Russia became atheists when he took power. Religion never left Russia. The state simply didn't want anyone competing with the one party state. After the Soviet Union fell the churches went back to being open, but they never left. Russian Orthodoxy was still the pet religion of the state as long as it knew its place.
