Events Tagged: "anti-religion"

Lenin states: Marxism is 'absolutely atheistic and positively hostile to all religion... We must combat religion—that is the ABC of all materialism.'

Lenin writes to Maxim Gorky: 'All worship of a divinity is a necrophilia... There can be nothing more abominable than religion'

Bolshevik Revolution begins; open war on religion commences - Of Moscow's 657 churches in 1917, only 46 still held services by mid-1970s

Foster: 'Our party considers religion to be the opium of the people... we carry on propaganda for the liquidation of these prejudices'

Browder declares: 'It is quite clear that the Communist Party is the enemy of religion. We Communists try to do the opposite of what we hold religion does'