(June 19, 2018 at 8:05 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Um no CL, the rise of the Soviet Union did so because of the SUPPORT of the majority of Russian Orthodox Christianity. The USSR did not persecute religion itself, it was a totalitarian state that squashed any dissent. Putin is a product of the KGB and even as President today, he quotes God all the time.Not to mention it was NOT an atheist state for most of it's history
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