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Sometimes believers lie, that Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) was an atheist and killing Jews has nothing to do with religion. The truth is that Adolf Hitler was a Roman Catholic. Hitler with his speeches and actions let to understand not once, that he believes in God, pursues God’s plan and even is protected by God. Last thought obsessed Hitler after unsuccessful attempts to kill him.

Quotes form Adolf Hitler’s personal book "My Struggle" ("Mein Kampf").

Adolf Hitler didn't support Evolution and was against mixing animals and races.

Adolf Hitler was creationist and saw atheism as a danger.

"We don't want to educate anyone in atheism." - Adolf Hitler; Table-Talk, page 6

"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... We need believing people" - Adolf Hitler (The German Churches Under Hitler, p.241)

"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so." - 1941, Said by Hitler to General Gerhart Engel in 1941; from John Toland [Pulitzer Prize winner], Adolf Hitler, New York: Anchor Publishing, 1992

Hitler transferred religion to politics.

"I learned much from the Order of the Jesuits… until now there has never been anything more grandiose on the earth than the hierarchical organization of the Catholic Church. I transferred much of this organization into my own party." - Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Said To Me (1939), p.266-267

Hitler saw Jesus as fighter against Jews and blamed Jews for His death.

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."

^{Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)}

Hitler saw himself as a reformer of Christianity, not as fighter against it.

Hitler never renounced Christ and his Christianity. He fought against Christians, who, as he thought, corrupted Christianity. Hitler saw himself as Jesus and Martin Luther:

"Luther had the merit of rising against the Pope and the organisation of the Church. It was the first of the great revolutions. And thanks to his translation of the Bible, Luther replaced our dialects by the great German language!" - Hitler / Table-Talk p.9

"The decisive falsification of Jesus's doctrine was the work of St. Paul. He gave himself to this work with subtlety and for purposes of personal exploitation. For the Galiean's object was to liberate His country from Jewish oppression. He set Himself against Jewish capitalism, and that's why the Jews liquidated Him." - Hitler / Table-Talk, p.76

"Christ was an Aryan, and St. Paul used his doctrine to mobilise the criminal underworld and thus organise a proto-Bolshevism." - Hitler / Table-Talk, p. 143

Just because Hitler tried to create his own version of Christianity and prove, that Jesus was not a Jew, and therefore argued with other Christians - that does not make him unbeliever or anti-Christian. Christians always struggle between each other for "true" Christianity even till blood and accuse each other that their opponents are not "true" Christians. Hitler didn’t reject Christianity. He just criticized it’s organized version and therefore later (1936-1938) switched to more militant branch - "The Order of Jesuits", because he thought that other denominations are corrupted and too weak to defend Christian ideals and beliefs.

If Protestant fights against Catholic version of Christianity, that doesn’t mean that Protestant is not a Christian and doesn’t belong to Christianity. Some people are believers with their personalized-modified understanding of religion or God and fight against other organized religions. Sometimes they fight even against their own organized religion. For example, they can think that it is corrupted and perverted, greedy or there is no need in organized religion - God must be private thing, etc..

There is no standard of Christianity. Each group declare themselves as "standard". Every group and every person is slightly different and has his own modifications of God and how to worship Him. Differences-modifications appear from different/subjective experience and knowledge in life. These modifications come from a wish to satisfy personal needs with less expense and more easily to pass to Heaven. So if "true" Christianity Mormon or Pope is ONE thing, for Hitler, Mother Teresa, Orthodox or some guy in India it will be OTHER thing. Christians will always fight for "true" Christianity between each other, as personal needs between people often come in conflict and nobody wants to see himself as fallible or loser. But this doesn't make all them non-Christians. Everybody wants to take more than to give. Hitler modified Christianity to make it more profitable for himself (as ALL Christians do without exception – just not all want to admit this for themselves) and honestly believed, that these modifications leads to "true" Christianity. He believed that old type organized Christianity is corrupted. People, who made profit form Hitler’s modifications, honestly admitted that these changes led TO more "true" Christianity. People who lost from Hitler's changes, started to claim that they led away FROM "true" Christianity. Today‘s Christians are not the ones, who made profit from Hitler’s ideas and changes - these changes put them in to uncomfortable position now, Hitler brought shame on Christianity as a Christian. So, of course, today’s Christians opposing Hitler’s changes on Christianity and identify them as factors which distanced Christianity from "true". Therefore they are opposing Hitler’s own identification as "true" Christian, because he does not match today’s Christians subjective conception of what"true" Christian is. Christian tactic is to create imaginable etalon of ideal Christian... and then they can call any person as "not true" Christian, who put "brothers in faith" in uncomfortable position, in such way washing off hands and avoiding responsibility for members of organisation.

Hitler believed in Christian God, in Christ, he went to Christian church and prayed. Hitler has all main Christianity bases. He was the same candy of sh*, just in different wrapping. What about killing? There is another True Christian besides Hitler – God, who lied, cheated, killed, robbed and was a paedophile. So everyone, who commits all these sins, can be Christians too ...unless God is an "Atheist".

Hitler’s "atheistic" army wore their "atheism" propagating sign on their military uniforms, like buckles "God With Us" ("Gott mit uns"). Some ideas, how to persecute and exterminate Jews, Hitler copied from previous Popes. For example, to wear special signs and ghettoise Jews was not Hitler's, but "brilliant" idea of Pope, made-up and described in 1555 year document "Cum nimis absurdum". It is not big secret that present Pope Joseph Alois Ratzinger was member of "Hitler’s-Youth" ("Hitler-Jugend"). Fascism with Mussolini born and was developed in Italy. People, who know geography well, can tell easily where Vatican is.

Some English quotes against Christianity by Adolf Hitler can be fabricated.
ffrf.org/fttoday/2002/nov02/carrier.php

There are two original-extant versions of "Hitler’s Table Talk" (whatever Hitler said in his bunker in Berlin). One is by two Hitler’s secretaries Heinrich Heim and Henry Picker, and other is by Hitler's right-hand-man Martin Bormann. Published:

1951 and 1976 German versions "Hitler's Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier" ("Hitler's Table Talk in the Central Headquarters") by Henry Picker and Heinrich Heim.

1952 French version "Libres Propos sur la Guerre et la Paix: Recueillis sur l'Ordre de Martin Bormann" ("Candid Remarks on the War and the Peace: Collected by Order of Martin Bormann") by François Genoud. It is half of the "Bormann Vermerke" ("Bormann Notes").

1953, 1973 and 2000 English versions "Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944 and Hitler's Secret Conversations, 1941-1944", edited by Hugh Trevor-Roper and translated by R. H. Stevens and Norman Cameron "officially" from "Bormann Vermerke" ("Bormann Notes"), but factually part from 1952 French version "Libres Propos sur la Guerre et la Paix: Recueillis sur l'Ordre de Martin Bormann" ("Candid Remarks on the War and the Peace: Collected by Order of Martin Bormann") by François Genoud.

1980 German version "Monologe im Führerhauptquartier 1941-1944: die Aufzeichnungen Heinrich Heims herausgegeben von Werner Jochmann" ("Monologue in the Central Headquarters: the Notes of Heinrich Heim edited by Werner Jochmann") by historian Werner Jochmann. It contained and "Bormann Vermerke" ("Bormann Notes").

1951 German edition by Henry Picker carries the strongest claim to authenticity. It has the actual German, was the first to be published, and has the support of eyewitness testimony. It also had scholarly backing on title page: "Arranged on behalf of the German Institute for the History of National Socialism, initiated and published by Gerhard Ritter, professor of history at the University of Freiburg". Another historian, Walter Mediger, even checked Picker's first edition (1951) against these original notes, made corrections in the second edition (1976), and testified to its accuracy.

Next in authority is the scholarly work of Werner Jochmann (1980), who publishes the German of the Bormann manuscript employed by François Genoud and Hugh Trevor-Roper's translators. Though it passed through many hands, including Bormann's, it agrees with Picker's text to such a detailed extent that we can be assured the two texts have a common ancestor, which must be the actual bunker notes themselves.

Christians like to present some "anti-religious" Hitler’s quotes from English versions (1953, 1973, 2000), which are translations from French version (1952).

And in original 1951, 1976 and 1980 German versions by Henry Picker and Werner Jochmann there are NO, for example, such Hitler’s remarks as "I shall never come to terms with the Christian lie" or "Our epoch will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity" - such quotes appears just in English versions (1953, 1973 and 2000) by Hugh Trevor-Roper which are translations from French version (1952) by François Genoud.

“Hitler's Last Testament” by François Genoud versus David Irving.

Documents by François Genoud “Le Testament Politique de Hitler”, published in French (1959), and “The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents”, published in English (1961), with an introduction by Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper can be fake also.

More information about Hugh Trevor-Roper with François Genoud and how they falsified Hitler’s testament and words is here: fpp.co.uk/Hitler/docs/Testament/byGenoud.html

Hitler's Last Testament or Hitlers Politisches Testament by François Genoud should not to be confused with real last will and testament of Adolf Hitler, dictated by Hitler to his secretary Traudl Junge and signed by Goebbels, Burgdorf, Bormann, and Krebbs. These are two different documents.

P.S. David Irving (fpp.co.uk) is infamous as a “holocaust denier”, though in truth he DOES NOT deny holocaust or that Germans massacred people. He says, that he is not so stupid, to deny holocaust as media portrays him (2:15-2:55). He suggests, that up to 3 million Jews, but not 6 million, were killed by Nazis. He argues about killing details and Hitler’s level of knowledge about it. David Irving admits also, that Hitler is fully responsible for killings as head of state, even if he didn’t know everything, what happened around him. Irving has an idea, that human life’s value is not based on race, therefore he would like to change the term of main crime “holocaust” and “genocide” (killing of people of a race) to “innocenticide” (killing of innocent people), to make Jews no longer exclusive victims of World War 2. Is it bad or good - everyone can decide for himself.

He could be considered as crazy person for doubting 6 million, if not the fact, that Auschwitz State Museum itself lowered number from 4 million Jews, killed in the camp, to 1.1 million, after historical investigation in the past years. At the Nuremberg Trials it was claimed that up to 3 million people died in Auschwitz concentration camp.

Auschwitz State Museum’s Memorial Plaque (1948-1990) claimed 4 million deaths.

Auschwitz State Museum’s Memorial Plaque from 1995 claimed 1.5 million deaths.

Auschwitz State Museum’s web site today (2012-02-05) claims 1.1 million deaths.

4 million or 1.1 million… it is still very big crime against humanity. It is understandable, that numbers may be not important for accusers, but criminals should be punished only for what they did, without involving fantasies. If someone killed 1 person - it is terrible crime, but it is still not acceptable to claim, that he killed 4 people, no matter, how much we hate the criminal. Is administration of Auschwitz State Museum “holocaust deniers”? NO. After detailed investigation, they only specified more accurate number, which fits historical facts and documents more precisely, than previous claims. War brought horrible things and millions were killed by Nazis and Allies, but number inflation is the same historical crime as minimization. History must be presented precisely as much as possible, without lying from BOTH sides.

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It is usual thing for religious people and societies, to name Josef Stalin as an “atheist”, like they did this many times with Adolf Hitler. Of course, there is no doubt, that majority of Soviet leaders, including Vladimir Lenin, Nikita Khrushchev or Mikhail Gorbachev, were atheists and few of them even militant. However, the bloodiest communist regime dictator Josef Stalin (1878 – 1953) was not an ATHEIST, but RELIGIOUS COMMUNIST. There was period in his life (during and after humiliating and cruel regime in Tbilisi Priest‘s Seminary and revolution time, when Stalin fought against monarchical dictatorship, supported by church), when he hold grudge against priests and religion, struggled and leaned more towards atheism. But eventually he returned to his religious roots and chose to resurrect and protect religion in USSR. Stalin used blind faith-based religious principles to strengthen his own dictatorship. Stalin born in 1878. He received more power and started his mass murder journey through corpses in 1922 and died in 1953.

~6 years in Church‘s School and ~5 years in Priest‘s Seminary.

Stalin grew in religious family and it was planned that he will become a priest. Therefore Stalin received religious education in Gori Church‘s School (1888-09-01 – 1894-06-??) and Tbilisi Priest‘s Seminary (1894-09-01 – 1899-07-29) which he didn’t accomplished, because he entered Revolution movement. Ideas about rich people as oppressors of the poor, how to defend poor people from them and that rich people will go to Hell or, at least, it will be hard for them to go to (communistic) heaven, Stalin collected from his religious education and the Bible.

Bible:NT:Matthew:19:23-24 And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Bible:NT:James:2:5-6 "Listen, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonoured the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you, is it not they who drag you into court?"

Bible:NT:James:5:1 "Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you."

Bible explains that, if you want to be real believer, you must resign your possessions and give them to the poor.

Bible:NT:Luke:12:33 "Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys."

Bible:NT:Mark:10:21-22 And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." At that saying his countenance fell, and he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.

Latin commun = English collective, shared. Sometimes people think that communism (collective, shared property, no private property) was atheistic idea and that “communist = atheist”. But communism was promoted in Bible as model of ideal society for believers. Christ followers in Bible lived as true communists by having common property as “ideal society” dreamed by USSR communists.

Bible:NT:Acts:2:44-45 And all who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need.

Bible:NT:Acts:4:32-35 Now the company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet; and distribution was made to each as any had need.

Those, who hide and don't share their all possessions, must die ("Stalinism").

Bible:NT:Acts:4:36-37 Thus Joseph who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas (which means, Son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus, sold a field which belonged to him, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Bible:NT:Acts:5:1-10 (Ananias and Sapphira) But a man named Anani′as with his wife Sapphi′ra sold a piece of property, and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back some of the proceeds, and brought only a part and laid it at the apostles’ feet. But Peter said, “Anani′as, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.” When Anani′as heard these words, he fell down and died. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.” But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Hark, the feet of those that have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.” Immediately she fell down at his feet and died.

Believers forget also, how property was and still is managed in Church and monasteries, where is no private property. Monks, nuns and many Christian priests live by sharing property, avoiding private possessions and being rich, as pure communists. And they promote such way of life – pure communism in all its glory. Are they atheists? Church and monasteries adopted and realized "atheistic" ideas of common-shared property thousands of years before revolution in Russia (1917) even started.

Believers throw accusations easily. They name believers as “atheists” without any shame, if these persons did bad things or were communists – of course, doing bad is not “compatible” with Christianity :).

Stalin wrote poems in Georgian language. Poems were published by local magazines. Translation from Georgian to Russian language by L.Kotiukov (Л. Котюков):

With help of classmate Michael Tshakaya (Михаил Григорьевич Цхакая) from Priest Seminary as godfather in wedding, Stalin and his first wife Ekaterina Svanidze (Екатерина Семёновна Сванидзе) married secretly in Tifli's church of St. David in 1904.

The documentary “Stalin. Part Two. Life in the revolution”, directed by Elena Tikhonova, 2003. (Документальный фильм «Сталин. Часть вторая. Личная жизнь в революции», режиссер Елена Тихонова, 2003.)

Stalin told to his daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva-Stalin that Christ existed.

In other-bigger Interview to Russian magazine “Version” («Версия») and second Russian TV channel RTR (РТР) (1998) Svetlana spoke more about her father’s belief in God. She said, that Stalin told history of Christ her later. And she thinks that he was believer. Stalin‘s wife Nadezhda (Надежда Сергеевна Аллилуева), maybe, was an atheist, because she denied for nannies to talk about God with kids. But it was not big problem – (maybe, with God‘s help :) Nadezhda shoot herself in 1932. It is symbolic, that her name Надежда means “Hope”. Stalin’s daughter said that after mother’s death Stalin lost everything human in him.

Stalin prohibits liquidation of churches and persecution of believers.

1997. АРХИВЫ КРЕМЛЯ. В 2-Х КН. / КН. 1. ПОЛИТБЮРО И ЦЕРКОВЬ.1922-1925 ГГ. ISBN 5-86004-113-6
1998. АРХИВЫ КРЕМЛЯ. В 2-Х КН. / КН. 2. ПОЛИТБЮРО И ЦЕРКОВЬ.1922-1925 ГГ. ISBN 5-8243-0001-1
www.orthomed.ru/ftproot/abort_mr/books/history/library/archvs4.htm

Fabricated documents by anti-communist and priest.

Anti-communist Anatoly Latyshev in his book  “Declassified Lenin” (Анатолий Латышев «Рассекреченный Ленин») in 1996 and priest Priest Dimitry Dudko (Димитрий Дудко, 1922 – 2004) in 1999 («Наш современник» №12, 1999-12-??) tried to portrait atheist Lenin (1870-1924) as more cruel and believer Stalin as more merciful. They represented “documents”, where Lenin “ordered” to close churches and to execute priests without mercy in   “Lenin's instruction from May, 1st, 1919 for N 13666-2” and how in 1939-11-11 Stalin cancelled this “Lenin's instruction” and gave orders for People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (НКВД) to stop persecuting believers and to release from custody already arrested priests. Igor Kurliandsky (Игорь Курляндский) claims that these documents are fabricated. («Политический журнал» №32(175), 2007-11-26) that “cancelled” document is falsification and therefore Stalin could not cancel it. ricolor.org/journal/13/istoria/3/

Lenin's instruction about struggle against priests and religion which was “cancelled”.

This document, where Stalin forbid to destroy churches, can be also falsified.

Why Russians disliked priests.

Lenin (1970-1924) was an atheist and disliked religion and priests (as many other poor Russians). Religion and priests were prosecuted not for belief in God, but as corrupt rich class and for supporting monarchical dictatorship – Tsar, who, according to Church, was appointed by God to rule over Russia (like Emperor of Japan during WW2).

Bible:NT:Romans:13:1 "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God."

Church was against parliamentarian government system and by that government was hanged Lenin's brother. Lenin has various reasons to dislike Church, like one below.

Berlin, 08 June 2007, Interfax – German psychologist Gunter Kruse, who in recent years has been engaged in drawing up Lenin's family tree, maintains that one of the world proletariat leader's great-grandmothers was burnt at the stake as a witch. – www.interfax-religion.comhttp://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=3171/

Lenin conflicted with Stalin and tried to keep him from power because of Stalin’s rudeness and cruelty. As Lenin wrote:

Lenin was revolutionist. He destroyed monarchy, fought to make Russia Parliamentarian State. Even now 65% Russians think that Lenin played positive role in the history of their country. 26% percent think he played a negative role, and 9% have no opinion on the matter. Why USSR didn't like church, especially after war? Church was flirting with Nazi in World War Two. Pius XI signed friendly agreement with Mussolini in 1929 and with Hitler in 1934. Fascism with Mussolini born in Vatican’s cradle – Italy. It is good that USSR government didn’t see paedophile scandals – situation could be worse. Inquisition and Crusaders did not play positive role too. Russians revenged to all, who collaborated with Nazi and fascists. Simple people didn’t know what to think. Lenin was against Church, Stalin was for Church. Stalin was very powerful, but he was only second in respectability after Lenin – Father of Revolution. Therefore even Stalin could not present himself as openly religious person, as he was successor of Lenin’s secular heritage.

Interview with Artiom Fiodorovich Sergeev (Артём Фёдорович Сергеев) who was raised in Stalin's family.

Stalin went to Kremlin’s Church.

Yuri Soloviev (Юрий Соловьёв) (Stalin’s personal guard for 10 years) claimed that Stalin was believer and during World War Two Stalin went to Kremlin’s Church. (French, Austrian, Germany and Russian documentary “Inside the Kremlin: In the Heart of Russia” by Thomas Schreiber / 2005, NDR Television in cooperation with Channel 1 Russia). It could be between years 1939 and 1945.

According to Stalin's grandson Alexander Burdonsky, Stalin confessed.

Stalin attended Temple of All Saints to pray.

In 1942-1943 Stalin started to organze meetings with priests and initiated reopening of churches, seminaries, academies, publishing of religious magazines in "bolshevistic speed" (as quick as possible) (Сталин: "А нельзя ли проявить большевистские темпы?") and promised full support. There are some documented speeches from these meetings:

Stalin's marks in books.

English historian Simon Sebag Montefiore studied Stalin’s hobbies, personal library, what Stalin liked to read, what kind of marks he left in his books. He found that Stalin liked to quote long quotes from the Bible. Stalin left such mark about God in the book “Last pages. Dialogues under a rose.” by Anatole France: ”Don‘t know traces, don‘t see. There is no Him for them.” ("Следов не знают, не видят. Его для них нет."). It seems, like Stalin thought that he knew God’s traces and saw God, not like others.

Antireligious literature for Stalin is waste-paper.

Stalin’s friends and comrades talk about Stalin.

Stalin was proud, that Georgia accepted Orthodoxy earlier, than Russia.

Stalin and Winston Churchill

Dmitry Petrovich Savchenko (military journalist) – "Civil "marshal Zhukov" of The Great Victory", 2005-04-08 "The Independent Newspaper"	Дмитрий Петрович Савченко (военный журналист) – "Гражданский "маршал Жуков" Великой Победы", 2005-04-08 "Независимая газета"
Letter to Aleksey Kosygin (1948-10-22) C.(omrade) Kosygin! Gifts from lord-God are sent to you (I am an executor of His will). It would be necessary to send more, but there is shortage in reserve. Pay attention to fish, – it is called "whitefish". Good, (people) speak, fish.	Письмо Алексею Косыгину (1948-10-22) Т. Косыгин! Посылаются Вам дары от господа-Бога (я – исполнитель его воли). Надо бы послать больше, да в резерве нехватка. Обратите внимание на рыбу, – называется она "белорыбица". Хорошая, говорят, рыба.
Greetings! Stalin.	Привет! Сталин.

Stalin "hated" religion so much, that in 1951-06-27 he gave "Stalin’s Prize" to English clergyman Hewlett Johnson. Various prizes under Stalin and Soviet authority received and other priests.

Stalin's "pure atheistic" funeral. The representative of the Russian Orthodox Church – Metropolitan Nicholas (Николай), Archbishop Nikon (Никон) and archpriest Nikolai Kolchitsky (Николай Колчицкий) - part of the honor guard at the coffin of Joseph Stalin.

Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate (JMP), 1953, №3, p. 5; №4, p. 3-4 (Журнал Московской Патриархии (ЖМП), 1953, №3, стр. 5; №4, стр. 3-4)

So, Stalin’s love to religion was not just right before his death, but started much earlier. Some people say, that Stalin revived religion just because Hitler in Germany planed to attack Russia (therefore it is strange, why Stalin didn’t believe, that Germany attacked USSR borders for some time after attack happened and argued that it is just propaganda by enemies). Or, maybe, he told stories of Christ to his daughter Svetlana because he afraid of Hitler too? But even if so... it seems, that Stalin understood power of religion and... if you want to send people to death ant kill others... the best help for that purpose can provide... religion. When people know, that Heaven is waiting for them after death, – they can die with smile on their face. For positive contribution to religion and recreation of church in Russia, some groups even started initiative to declare Stalin as saint.

Stalin, Evolution and Grigory Glurdzhidze.

^{It is necessary to say, that religion often perverts understanding of Evolution by claiming, that survives "the strongest, the ruthlesst, the cruellest" and so on... by putting in the heads of people such understanding of "real" laws of life. In reality... during Evolution survive beings with characteristics best-suited for their environment. Therefore, if in society is more appreciable honesty, decency, usefulness – society will care more about person, who has such characteristics, and therefore such person will have better chances of survival.}

Stalin spoke about God and Evolution with his friend Grigory Glurdzhidze during summer holidays, when they both were 13 years old (1892-6...8-??, 4-th class of Gori Church School).

Yes, it is anti-religious speech (as G.Glurdzhidze told us about Stalin). But it seems, that Darwin’s book did not have LONG LASTING impact on Stalin. Even Pope in Vatican officially accepted Darwin’s theory of Evolution and admitted, that it does not contradict Christianity. It looks, that Stalin found some similar solution between Evolution and Christianity as Pope later ...maybe, with help of other believers. Because, after this speech in 1892, Stalin (as an "atheist"?) continued to go to Gori Church School and finished it with honours in 1894-06-??. Therefore, he was recommended to enter into the Tbilisi Priest Seminary and entered it in 1894-09-01 (and studied there untill 1899-07-29). Stalin started as good student in Seminary also. In the first year, he took 8-th place in class. In the second year, he took even higher 5-th place. Only in third year, Stalin started to have problems and dropped to 16-th place. Also, Stalin entered Seminary against his father’s wish:

Stalin’s permanent behaviour and personal notes later show that he was not an atheist, but believer or returned to belief in God. Maybe Stalin’s temporary atheistic behaviour was influenced by events few month before (1892-02-13), when he expressed his believe in God and justice:

Why Stalin was so cruel? Violent father, Church School and Priest’s Seminary formed his view to the World and how he can treat it. This had impact on his actions:

So, we can thank Priest’s Seminary and its inhuman regime for Stalin who he was.

Stalin about Evolution and God.

On one meeting later (1924) Stalin told that it is not enough to explain, how nature works, to prove that God does not exists. Maybe inside he felt the same about Darwin's book:

Stalin and son of clergyman.

There is a story, presented by Igor Kurliandsky, how son of clergyman George Elisabedashvili's urinated on icon in old church (this event could take place during Seminary years). Stalin’s role in this story was double-edged.

Especially, if to take in to account, that (according to his daughter Svetlana) on a wall of Stalin’s suburban Kuntsev residence, where he lived and died, hung an orthodox icon, to which he pointed with hand and his last word before death  was "God" (documentary “Stalin – Death of the leader”, 2003, NTV, director Valery Udovydchenkov (документальный фильм “Сталин – Смерть вождя”, 2003, НТВ, режиссер Валерий Удовыдченков)).

Stalin loved to invoke God in his personal speeches.

These Stalin's quotes shows, that religious education escorted Stalin all his life and influenced his later decisions. Of course, there were some Stalin‘s negative sentences about religion, as Hitler criticized religion sometimes too. Even Mother Teresa had doubts about religion. But Stalin’s strong patronage of religion and historical facts, witness of his fellows, family members and priests... does not make him the leader of all atheists. I don’t know many atheists who fought so hard for resurrection of religion and even went to church to pray as Stalin did. I can not imagine person, like Richard Dawkins, acting this way in the name of ...atheism.

USSR was not so "atheistic" in reality as in theory.

USSR was "pure atheistic" just on paper. For example, even after Emelian Yaroslavsky’s "Godless quinquennium" (atheism.ru/library/Firsov_1.phtml) in USSR's 1937 year census about religion answered 80%, from which 56.7% (55.3 millions) indicated themselves as believers and 43.3% (42.2 millions) as unbelievers – still minority (krotov.info/history/20/1930/1937_zher.htm). I suspect that there were more believers, because records shows, that people, who denied answering that question, were mostly from various sects and, as I suspect myself, maybe who afraid to admit that they were believers, because there was some intolerance to religion from the past. You can imagine what amount of believers was in 1917 Socialist Revolution time. Yaroslavsky and his military-atheistic movement "Godless" ("Безбожники") was popular between 1932 and 1937, but his movement collapsed and his organization atrophied. And under Stalin’s order he even was forced to write article "Why religious people are against Hitler" ("Почему религиозные люди против Гитлера"). After death of notorious "the fighter with heavens" E.Jaroslavskii (1943-12-04), created by him "The Central Museum of History and Atheism" has been deprived premises, by passing building to cartoon's film-studio "Multfilm" ("Мультфильм").

Stalin's main sidekicks were also believers.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Лаврeнтий Пaвлович Бeрия) (1899-1953) – chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Stalin, also could be believer. His son Sergo Beria wrote about his father:

Sergo Beria. My father – Lavrentiy Beria CHAPTER 1. THE BEGINNING OF THE WAY I still will return to memoirs about our family for now and would like to tell about the father a little. He was born on March, 17th (30), 1899. Dreamed of architecture and was good artist itself. I remember one story already, connected with my childhood. I didn't become the believing person, though with deep respect I concern religion. And then, the boy, I was the militant atheist and once have broken an icon. Ridiculously, certainly, to speak about any MY belief, most likely, it was result of the education received at school. In a word, grandmother Martha was very disappointed. She was the believer and till the end of life helped both to church and parishioners. Having come back from work, my father condemned my atheistic heat and... has drawn a new icon. I have remembered that conversation for a long time. "It is necessary to be respectful to another's belief".

Серго Берия. Мой отец – Лаврентий Берия ГЛАВА 1. НАЧАЛО ПУТИ Я еще вернусь к воспоминаниям о нашей семье, а пока хотел бы немного рассказать об отце. Родился он 17 (30) марта 1899 года. Мечтал об архитектуре и сам был хорошим художником. Вспоминаю одну историю, связанную уже с моим детством. Верующим человеком я так и не стал, хотя с глубоким уважением отношусь к религии. А тогда, мальчишкой, я был воинствующим безбожником и однажды разбил икону. Смешно, разумеется, говорить о каких-то убеждениях, скорее всего это стало результатом воспитания, полученного в школе. Словом, бабушка Марта была очень огорчена. Она была верующая и до конца жизни помогала и церкви и прихожанам. Возвратившись с работы, отец остудил мой атеистический пыл и... нарисовал новую икону. Тот разговор я запомнил надолго. "К чужим убеждениям надо относиться с уважением".

Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky (Алексaндр Михaйлович Василeвский) (1895-1977), son of priest (as his mother was daughter of priest too) – Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces and Deputy Minister of Defense during World War II, as well as Minister of Defense of USSR from 1949 to 1953 (under Stalin) was believer too.

Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov (Георгий Максимилианович Маленков) (1902-1988) – Secretary of the Central Committee also was a believer. He went to church regulary and at the end of his life become priest in church near Moscow (Дмитирий Поспеловский. Православная Церковь в истории Руси, России и СССР. Москва. 1996. с. 322)

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (1875–1946) – the nominal head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946. From 1926 he was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, where he was one of the inner circle of party leaders around Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Pol Pot (1925-1998) tried to erase individuality as he thought that differences create conflicts. With his artificial equality, abolishing private possessions and so erasing natural selection from society he was doomed by Evolution to fail, like all other communists. Pol Pot targeted not just different religions as differences, but education, science and medicine too. Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge were composed of Buddhists and Pol Pot himself was a communist and Theravada Buddhist. Pol Pot studied at a Buddhist monastery (1 year) and then later at a Catholic school (8 years). As for "Collège Preah Sihanouk" and "Lycée Sisowath" - I don’t know if they were secular or Buddhist oriented education institutions. Cambodia’s communism was influenced by Theravada Buddhism and its teaching to renunciation of the material world as Pol Pot with his followers organized perfectly by smashing cars and modern industrial equipment with hammers. Before Pol Pot came into power, 95% of the population declared themselves Buddhists. According to CIA (1998 census in Cambodia), this number is almost the same and after Pol Pot’s rule (Buddhist 96.4%, Muslim 2.1%, other 1.3%, unspecified 0.2%). Cambodia was and is very religious country. Statement, that somehow few atheists managed to overthrow and rule over 95% believers, is insane.

Pol Pot’s Education:

1934 – 1935 Buddhist monastery Wat Botum Vaddei in Phnom Penh
1935 – 1943 Catholic school in Phnom Penh École Miche
1943 – 1947 Collège Preah Sihanouk at Kampong Cham
1947 – 1948 Lycée Sisowath in Phnom Penh
1948 – 1949 Technical school in Phnom Penh
1949 – 1952 École Francaise de radio-électricité

King of Cambodia from 1941, Head of State from 1955 to 1970, who resigned in 1976 Prince Norodom Sihanouk said:

“Pol Pot does not believe in God,” Sihnaouk had said “but he thinks that heaven, destiny, wants him to guide Cambodia in the way he thinks it the best for Cambodia, that is to say, the worst. Pol Pot is mad, you know, like Hitler.”

“Whiskey Oscar Seven Bravo...” / “WO7B” A tale of Cambodia 1993 (182 page) by O. B. Wright

Yes, Buddhists don’t believe in God, but I am ant not sure, that atheists believe in heaven (and Pol Pot’s comparison fellow Hitler in Sihanouk’s description was not atheist too). It seems that Pol Pot was not so big atheist as some Christians would like to present, mixing communism (social relations between humans) with atheism (humans relations with god) - it is absolutely different ideologies.

About 600.000 people have been killed in Cambodia by massive US bombing from 1965 till 1973. The US has dropped 2,756,941 tons of bombs - more than all the bombs dropped by the Allies during World War II. Because of Pol Pot died about 750,000. So when someone say, that during Pol Pot’s regime died about 1.5 million people, it would be nice, that they would give some credit to Christian US too.

Although Mao (1893-1976) Zedong was influenced by religious ideas, he could be an atheist.

“Atheism must take the place of belief in a God.”

The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976: January 1956-December 1957 By Zedong Mao, Michael Y. M. Kau, John K. Leung (October-december 1957 / 791 page)

Pham Van Dong: How are you, Chairman Mao?
Mao Zedong: Not very well. I have had a cought for some days. It is time to go to Heaven. It seems that I am summoned to meet the Good God. How is President Ho?

^{"Behind the bamboo curtain: China, Vietnam, and the world beyond Asia" By Priscilla Mary Roberts. Mao Zedong and Pham Van Dong, Beijing, November 17, 1968}

Although China is a socialist country, Buddhism is protected according to national policy.

The late Chairman Mao Zedong said when he received delegations from Peru in 1964 that “it is wrong to tell people to be against religion.”

He said that if China did so, “religious people would oppose us... believing in a certain religion doesn't mean people don't oppose imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism.”

“Tibetan Buddhism: Sacred traditions have down-to-earth side”
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6610660.html

The Poems of Mao Zedong : Harper & Row
^{It seems, Mao Zedung smoked strong weed :)}

Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by HEAVEN and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the GODDESS of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world. June 1956

The GODS on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and willow they soar straight up into the ninth heaven and ask the prisoner of the moon, Wu Kang' what is there. He offers them wine from the cassia tree. The lonely lady on the moon, Chang O, spreads her vast sleeves and dances for these good SOULS in the unending sky. Down on earth a sudden report of the tiger's defeat. Tears fly down from a great upturned bowl of rain. May 11, 1957

Saying Good-bye to the GOD of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the GODS, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. GOD of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to HEAVEN. July I, 1958

Saying Good-bye to the GOD of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. GHOSTS sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the GOD of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the GOD is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958

Taoism and Mao Zedong: http://taoism21cen.com/Englishchat/maoandtaoism.html

The Little Red Book

Apparently Mao believed in Buddhahood.

"Make trouble, fail, make trouble again, fail again . . . till their doom; that is the logic of the imperialists and all reactionaries the world over in dealing with the people's cause, and they will never go against this logic. This is a Marxist law. When we say "imperialism is ferocious", we mean that its nature will never change, that the imperialists will never lay down their butcher knives, that they will never become Buddhas, till their doom."

"Cast Away Illusions, Prepare for Struggle" (August 14, 1949), Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 428.

Mao quoted Lao Tzu.

""Exchange information." This means that members of a Party committee should keep each other informed and exchange views on matters that have come to their attention. This is of great importance in achieving a common language. Some fail to do so and, like the people described by Lao Tzu, "do not visit each other all their lives, though the crowing of their cocks and the barking of their dogs are within hearing of each other". The result is that they lack a common language."

"Methods of Work of Party Committees" (March 13, 1949), Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 378.

Mao said that a man in China is usually subjected to a religious authority and is one of the thick ropes binding the Chinese people together.

"A man in China is usually subjected to the domination of three systems of authority [political authority, clan authority and religious authority]. ...As for women, in addition to being dominated by these three systems of authority, they are also dominated by the men (the authority of the husband). These four authorities — political, clan, religious and masculine — are the embodiment of the whole feudal-patriarchal ideology and system, and are the four thick ropes binding the Chinese people, particularly the peasants."

"Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan" (March 1927), Selected Works, Vol. I, pp. 44-46.*

And yet the letters suggest that Castro was a man of unusual spiritual depth -- and a fervent believer in God. Addressing the father of a fallen comrade, he writes: “I will not speak of him as if he were absent, he has not been and he will never be. These are not mere words of consolation. Only those of us who feel it truly and permanently in the depths of our souls can comprehend this. Physical life is ephemeral, it passes inexorably.... This truth should be taught to every human being -- that the immortal values of the spirit are above physical life. What sense does life have without these values? What then is it to live? Those who understand this and generously sacrifice their physical life for the sake of good and justice -- how can they die? God is the supreme idea of goodness and justice.”

“Letters From Prison: Castro Revealed” by Ann Louise Bardach; Sunday, February 25, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022301723.html

“I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure (Jesus Christ).” - Castro in 1985.

Fidel Castro in quotes (8:55AM GMT 19 Feb 2008)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1579170/Fidel-Castro-in-quotes.html

USSR was not an ATHEISTIC, but COMUNISTIC/SOCIALISTIC republic’s union.

Communism/Socialism is ideology about "humans(rich) vs humans(poor)".
Atheism/Theism is ideology about "humans(all) vs God".

Just retarded or dishonest people cannot see absolute difference between these two ideologies. Communism is not about believing or unbelieving in GOD, but about social equality between humans and collective/shared property ("commun" from Latin = collective/shared). Property was taken from Church In USSR not because she promoted GOD, but because she was RICH. All RICH people (atheists including) were considered as oppressors of working class. People saw priests (not GOD) as corrupted, greedy human bastards, who perverted religion, by using it to gain material profit, and that priests didn’t follow precepts of Christ to live ascetically. Russian Church’s and Tsar’s union with their gold, prosperity and endless wars finally pissed of starving masses. Therefore masses rebelled against RICH PEOPLE, not against GOD, and expropriated property from all rich people - from atheists and from religious people EQUALY! Union of monarchy and theocracy in Russia was demolished. Church had more property than atheists then for the very simple reason - atheists were ABSOLUTE MINORITY in society during these days. It is main reason, why Church lost more, than atheists. In Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia (Theravada Buddhist 95%, other 5%) statistically almost all (~100%) people were BELIEVERS during revolutions!

“A.L.Eeliseev writes that a meeting of the Antireligious Commission of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) took place on 23 May 1929 under the chairmanship of E.Iaroslavskii. There, believers in the country were estimated at 80 percent.”

About 1937 census in Soviet Union: “It turned out that the illiterate, Orthodox believers from sixteen years of age and older made up 67.9 percent, while among the literate, the number was 79,2 percent. In such a manner, to the extent that education was expanded, the percentage of believers not only was not reduced, but actually increased.”

“Religion and Politics in Russia: A Reader” By Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, 7 page.

Russia just now reached 24% atheists in state. For example, in one of the Communistic State of USSR – Lithuania... 1923 census shows that 100% of population were believers. Yes, Lenin was an atheist, but without support of masses, composed almost only from believers, it was impossible to overthrow Tsar’s monarchic government during Great October Socialist Revolution (not Atheist Revolution) in Russia in 1917. It was believers, not atheists, who made biggest job by robbing RICH (religious and nonreligious) people! Church functioned and was not fully oppressed in USSR. KGB used it to spy on people through confessions very successfully. Yes, Church in USSR was separated from Government IN THE SAME WAY as in USA, EU and other civilized parts of the World. This does not mean that USA, EU and all other countries are Atheistic regimes. When property of Churches was nationalized, Church and believers in the West started to shout that it was "atheistic" regime. Of course, just atheists are capable to kill, rob and take neighbours property by force... religious people never rob and burn each other’s churches :). Christianity has huge experience in killing and robbing not just other religions or unbelievers but its own denominations too. You don't need to be an atheist to do that. Communists didn’t destroyed religion. They preserved it, by building their system on authoritarian and worshiping bases, like it is in religion. There are more believers In Eastern-Communistic countries than in Western-Capitalistic – free thinking World. Under Communism you were free to believe, whatever you want, until you glorify and don't question communism. Atheist‘s/agnostic‘s amount:

adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html

Japan 64%
Sweden 46%
Denmark 43%
France 43%
Belgium 42%
Germany 41%
Netherlands 39%
Britain 31%
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Russia 24%
China 8%

“In 1967 Albania was proclaimed the world's first atheist state. After the ban was lifted at the end of 1990, however, the population was found to be, as before World War II, approximately 70 percent Muslim and 30 percent Christian”

“Conflict in the former Yugoslavia: An Encyclopedia” by John B. Allcock, Marko Milivojević, John Joseph Horton

About China: "But probably 90 percent of the population occasionally resorted to Buddhist rites or temples and 99 percent were affected by Buddhist contributions to Chinese thought and behaviour."

“The Practice of Chinese Buddhism, 1900-1950” by Holmes Welch

Many of the world's Communist states declared themselves as secular officially. Although statistical information, gathered after collapse, shows, that they remained and are fairly religious. If communism was a movement to advance atheism, it sure didn't have much of an effect. Religious Statistics of "Historical Communist States" by CIA.

Afghanistan: Sunni Muslim 80%, Shia Muslim 19%, other 1%

Albania: Muslim 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10%

Angola: indigenous beliefs 47%, Roman Catholic 38%, Protestant 15% (1998 est.)

Azerbaijan: Muslim 93.4%, Russian Orthodox 2.5%, Armenian Orthodox 2.3%, other 1.8% (1995 est.)

Benin: Christian 42.8% (Catholic 27.1%, Celestial 5%, Methodist 3.2%, other Protestant 2.2%, other 5.3%), Muslim 24.4%, Vodoun 17.3%, other 15.5% (2002 census)

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Muslim 40%, Orthodox 31%, Roman Catholic 15%, other 14%

Bulgaria: Bulgarian Orthodox 82.6%, Muslim 12.2%, other Christian 1.2%, other 4% (2001 census)

Cambodia: Buddhist (official) 96.4%, Muslim 2.1%, other 1.3%, unspecified 0.2% (1998 census)

Congo: Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Muslim 10%, other (includes syncretic sects and indigenous beliefs) 10%

Croatia: Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 1.3%, other and unspecified 0.9%, none 5.2% (2001 census)

Ethiopia: Orthodox 43.5%, Muslim 33.9%, Protestant 18.6%, traditional 2.6%, Catholic 0.7%, other 0.7% (2007 Census)

Georgia: Orthodox Christian (official) 83.9%, Muslim 9.9%, Armenian-Gregorian 3.9%, Catholic 0.8%, other 0.8%, none 0.7% (2002 census)

Grenada: Roman Catholic 53%, Anglican 13.8%, other Protestant 33.2%

Hungary: Roman Catholic 51.9%, Calvinist 15.9%, Lutheran 3%, Greek Catholic 2.6%, other Christian 1%, other or unspecified 11.1%, unaffiliated 14.5% (2001 census)

Laos: Buddhist 67%, Christian 1.5%, other and unspecified 31.5% (2005 census)

Lithuania: Roman Catholic 79%, Russian Orthodox 4.1%, Protestant (including Lutheran and Evangelical Christian Baptist) 1.9%, other or unspecified 5.5%, none 9.5% (2001 census)

Macedonia: Macedonian Orthodox 64.7%, Muslim 33.3%, other Christian 0.37%, other and unspecified 1.63% (2002 census)

Mozambique: Catholic 28.4%, Muslim 17.9%, Zionist Christian 15.5%, Evangelical Pentecostal 10.9%, Anglican 1.3%, other 7.2%, none 18.7% (2007 census)

Poland: Roman Catholic 89.8% (about 75% practicing), Eastern Orthodox 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, other 0.3%, unspecified 8.3% (2002)

Romania: Eastern Orthodox (including all sub-denominations) 86.8%, Protestant (various denominations including Reformate and Pentecostal) 7.5%, Roman Catholic 4.7%, other (mostly Muslim) and unspecified 0.9%, none 0.1% (2002 census)

Serbia: Serbian Orthodox 85%, Catholic 5.5%, Protestant 1.1%, Muslim 3.2%, unspecified 2.6%, other, unknown, or atheist 2.6% (2002 census)

Slovakia: Roman Catholic 68.9%, Protestant 10.8%, Greek Catholic 4.1%, other or unspecified 3.2%, none 13% (2001 census)

Slovenia: Catholic 57.8%, Muslim 2.4%, Orthodox 2.3%, other Christian 0.9%, unaffiliated 3.5%, other or unspecified 23%, none 10.1% (2002 census)

Tajikistan: Sunni Muslim 85%, Shia Muslim 5%, other 10% (2003 est.)

Turkmenistan: Muslim 89%, Eastern Orthodox 9%, unknown 2%

Uzbekistan: Muslim 88% (mostly Sunni), Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3%

Communism is not about God

Some Muslim fought against Christian RELIGION, therefore he was an atheist?
Some Protestant fought against Catholic RELIGION, therefore he was an atheist?
Some Stalin or Pol Pot fought against Buddhist RELIGION, therefore he was an atheist?

Fighting against some religious people or religious denominations doesn’t mean automatically, that you are an atheist – you can be religious too. It matters, what you are fighting FOR and believe IN. There are many opinions between same Christians, that Church and God doesn’t have anything in common, that Church/priests are corrupted, perverted and seek money and power only. That there is no need in organized religion - God must be private thing. The same ideas could be in the heads of revolutionists. Stalin murdered almost all Soviet military elite before WW2 and killed communists as flies. Does this mean that he was anti-Soviet and anti-Communist? No. He saw this as clearing / purifying. It was not a big problem for Stalin to kill someone... he just spread tickets to Heaven or Hell with light hand. How the Papal legate Arnaud-Amaury once said: "Kill them all! Surely the Lord discerns which ones are his". Christians destroyed each other’s pray houses and slaughtered each other in thousands during all history, thinking they are right and good Christians. Even God slaughtered his own people in the Bible. Pol Pot fought against organized Buddhism. His regime tried to suppress individuality and eliminate all differences between humans… and... he was inspired by this conception directly from the same Buddhism. Pol Pot studied at a Buddhist monastery and a Roman Catholic school. Pol Pot exterminated educated people, doctors and teachers – important part of atheism base. So, it would be nice for believers not to throw all responsibility for Pol Pot’s behaviour and ideas only on atheists and to see more clear evidences, not just "Communism=Atheism" or "If you fight some denomination of religion you are an atheist".

Communism is unscientific, illogical, antiEvolutional

Unnatural equalization and collective/shared property removes need for competition with natural selection and motives, why to be better than others. People's needs always are larger, than possibilities and this force them not to enjoy what they already have and push to move forward. Restriction of possibilities to supply self needs, by setting top limits, restricts enthusiasm to reach something higher than these limits – there is no point to reach unreachable. Governments must let to do everything, if person’s actions and reached benefit are higher than harm for him, others and environment. Everything what satisfy and does not include everyone else against their will – must be normal ant allowable.

Why Communism collapsed.

There are almost no top limits, how much PROFIT you can gain In Capitalism - this can cause problems in society too. Under Communism, to keep everyone equal, limits for PROFIT were set and SALALRY, paid by government, was usually the only one income for majority. Under Communism didn’t matter, how much or how good you work, you could get almost the same salary as others, plus worthless medal with document that you are "True Communist. But People always try to find the ways, how to gain bigger PROFIT with fewer EXPENSES.

[B] When Capitalist worker figure out, how to rise his PROFIT about 30$, by increasing his EXPENSES just about 10$, - he goes for it.

[C] If Communist worker figure out, how to rise his PROFIT about 30$ by increasing his EXPENSES just about 10$, he understands... that he will not get more than 100$ anyway, because 100$ is top limit, how much you he can get. Everything above that limit will take government.

[D] Communist worker thinks and finds the best solution, how to increase his PROFIT. The easiest and only way to do this is by decreasing-minimizing EXPENSES. What expenses could minimize Communist worker? Of course, WORKING TIME and QUALITY of MATERIALS. He can start to work less to save time (equivalent to 5$) and can steal cement from constructional area for his own needs (worth of 5$). In such way he increased his own PROFIT by 10$. Life for him personally became easier and brighter, but country didn’t gain anything.

"Communism rules" contradicted these "survival rules" of reality, which were formed by millions years of evolution:

A. Individual needs have priority over social needs.
B. Output/reward must be greater than input/work, otherwise you will lose energy and die.

B rule follows from the law of conservation of energy. All living things and structures power itself from energy difference between input and output; there are NO exceptions. Life forms with better energy efficiency have better chance of survival. This is why trying to work less for lower salary is natural response. So, people started to minimize their work in order not to waste the energy. Economy lost momentum, resources became scarce and rules A and B became more and more important. Reality vs. Communism fight ended with score 1:0.

Humans have natural tendency to work better and with more enthusiasm for bigger reward, than for smaller reward. If government or owners of companies (under communism or capitalism) will rip-off people to much of their reward for done job (usually it is salary) and will take it for themselves, people, in order to survive, will switch more and more to “resource saving” mode and creativity with economical grow will slow down.

Extreme inequality is bad as extreme equality.

There is very good saying that… man needs very little for full happiness, but it is important, that others around him must have even less. People measure their wealth by comparing it to others. It is why people in poor countries, where everyone around them are poor, can be even happier than people in rich countries, where inequality is shining everywhere. Not only extreme inequality is bad, like slavery, when minority swims in luxury and majority struggles in poverty. Communistic countries went to extreme in another direction, by making everyone equal too much. People lost interest in competition and noble slogans were not enough to motivate them, even when they were on every corner. Under communism people were quite happy with little, what they had, because everyone around them had almost the same amount of wealth and limited possibilities to buy something different. Of course, senior officials in USSR had more privileges, bigger salaries, but not as big as bosses of private companies in the West. There were no millionaires in USSR, to compare and see big difference, how poor you are. It was also important for government to misinform public at the same time, how bad it is in the West. People had less motivation to strive, because strive was not rewarded as much as in the West. There were no pure communism, but it was too much equality in society (which is as bad as too big difference in wealth), to slow economical evolution and productivity. People weren’t rich but happy, because according to propaganda life in the West was even worse:

The same years, but different “weather” (industrial crisis in all capitalistic countries).

Who got the national income? In the USSR - the working people!
In capitalistic countries - the exploiters.

Way of talent (in capitalistic countries)... Give a way for talent (in socialistic countries)!

Not working and stealing from government was more and more national sport of USSR. Because of such circumstances, Capitalism was more willing and effective in producing better and not just cheaper things. Communists were more inventive in stealing from government, because for many people it was the only way to make their life better. Of course, Communistic regime paid a little more to good workers, but it was not enough as motive to make him think, how to create something effective and innovative like Capitalist’s salary. Therefore Soviet cars and other stuff in 1980 looked like were made in 1960. People didn't understood, why situation is so bad, but day after day their desire to keep together such “union of losers” become weaker and weaker, until people – connective material of state broke and dispersed to different directions.

It seems, like the best economies are based on mix of Capitalism (represents individualism and competition rules which are required for better chance of survival) and Socialism (represents protection and safety rules which are required for better chance of survival).

Constitutions of RSFSR and USSR (1918-1977) • “Myths about communism & atheism”

Constitutions of RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) and USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) said nothing about priority of atheism over religion or elimination of religion.

Idea of Hell leads to violence. If Hell will be eternal suffering, then there is no final point, just pointless torture. If point is torture, until sinner will understand his sins, then isn't better way to make human to understand something – knowledge and education? If child committed mistake-sin (stealing or animal beating), what would be better to do to make sure that he would not mistake-sin again? Sit down and talk with him, explain how World works, explain social links, why stealing is bad, because it ruins society - his own environment, his life, how animals suffer and feel pain, explain about reversible effect of all actions, until he will understand. Or it is better to beat your child, strip his nails off, scald his flesh with hot water and torture him? We all know that kids, who experienced violence in childhood from others (like Stalin), later are more violent. Raped more often become a rapists, beaten become a beater. If you beat your child for his mistakes-sins, with every strike your install in his brains conception, that beating is acceptable method to achieve your goals (especially when you are stronger). It makes beating OK, if somebody doesn’t act how you like or want. That is why beaten in childhood beat others in the same way later, trying to achieve their goals, as same as his authority (father/mother) did in the past. Christian idea of "education" through torture in Hell - is primitive, violent, and stupid. Civilised World knows already that if you want to grow a good human, you do it with education and knowledge, not with violence and torture (because people learn by copying others). Otherwise schools would be torture chambers. The main purpose and idea should be to repair broken humans in humane schools, not to destroy them finally in Hell by showing them new limits of sadism and torture. Is God so stupid and primitive that He doesn’t know better way to teach, than just through torture? Does He give priority to fist over intellect? Or it is just some stupid and primitive Christians with big fists and small brains tried to apply what they mastered best? Therefore they create for themselves imaginable place, to enjoy in their minds suffering of those who don’t agree with them... and in such way they compensate their dissatisfaction in reality. If you can’t win opponent in reality, you can at least enjoy torturing him in your mind. Idea of Hell show us, how sick and sadistic in its core can be Christianity. Christianity still teaches conception of Hell and still don’t "understand", why religious fanatics as Hitler and Stalin (who received religious education) were so brutal and violent. Inquisition (tortures were used to retrieve lost sheeps to "right" patch and to make them suffer for sins) was the same idea of Hell brought to us by Church. Until idea of Hell is alive, idea of Inquisition - teaching and achieving goals through torture and sadism is alive too.

Religion always leads to Inquisition with "Disprove God existence!"

Every time, when you make proposition and ask someone else to disprove this, you make an Inquisition act.

In modern society court uses innocent presumption - when man reputed as innocent, until his guilt is not proved. Prove of guilt (proposition) must be presented by accuser (proposer).

Inquisition operated conversely. Inquisitional court used guilty presumption - when someone threw proposition-accusation, and accused person was reputed as guilty… until disproving that he is not. And to disprove proposition-accusation supposed accused person. This let very easily to cope (crucify) with everybody by throwing any ridiculous propositions-accusations-claims …like "he is cooperating with the devil" or "she is a witch". And it was more easier in the past, because accused person, who supposed to defend himself and desperately search for evidences of his innocence, usually was imprisoned (as already guilty). Also it is hard to find evidences for that, what never existed and exists. What evidence has nothing? Of course, the best evidence for nothing is ...nothing. But accusers wanted ...something... to disprove their nothing. In religious discussions between theists and atheists... theists until now throw proposition, that God exists, and wait for disproof of this proposition from atheists – what atheists almost always and try to do. Believers just rest and wait some visible or touchable evidences which could prove their none-existing God - nothing. Therefore atheists try to replace God-nothing with something (scientific explanations of things and events). It looks, like Christians are waiting for some touchable and visible evidences for vacuum. Believers can not prove their proposition (God) until now, so until now they are trying to use Inquisition tactics (guilty presumption) in debates. Therefore it is important always to alarm, when religion gain more power in society and social law, which determine human’s lives. Because until now... religion and its followers in thinking and methods are not more advanced as far as in 16 ages. Guilt presumption method in religious society can be met very often. Like war in Iraq. People started war with Iraq believing in weapons of mass destruction without supporting these claims by strong evidences. You can see guilt presumption in private lives, when people cope with their opponents by throwing accusations without evidences. Ant people don’t need evidences… all what they need it is just blind faith-belief and desire to crucify somebody. If you care for better society for you and your kids – try to remove religious thinking and replace it by logic and reason.

Incompetence or not-knowing, how to explain some things and events, are NOT evidences of God! It is evidences of incompetence and lack of person’s knowledge.

Religion leads to populism and demagogy in politics and personal life.

Bible:Ps:128:4 Lo, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

Bible:Jo:20:29 Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe." (note: who believe without evidences)

Religion-belief is directly involved in spreading not just guilt presumption, but also message, that somehow blind belief-faith without evidences has great value and even greater than belief based on evidences. Thanks to such thinking, anyone in religious society can throw promises and people will believe and accept them as truth without supporting evidences. There is absolutely reversed situation in sceptic’s society, because sceptics appeal not on belief, but on evidences. When somebody throws promises he must prove and support his his claims with evidences himself. And just after that, when evidences are presented, promises can be accepted. It is not surprise, when unknowing person tries to present his unknowingness as "advantage" – he feels better when thinks that he at least has something valuable – his unknowingness – Jesus(God-Authority) personally value that... and who cares about small humans. It is not hard to understand, why in sceptic’s society, which appeals on evidences, more dominates innocent presumption and objective opinion …and in believer’s society, which appeals on propositions and belief without evidences, more dominates guilt presumption and bigger risk of preconceived opinion. It very easy to crucify anybody with sometimes absolutely ridiculous claims in religious society - it is why believer’s society is not safe. It is why in believer’s society prospers injustice, populism and demagogy. It is why in believer’s society can win orators, who spiel with their gold-toque and give unreal promises without clear evidences, how these promises will be realized. People value persons (for example politics and priests) who can lie more and better without shame, who promise bigger golden mountains and Heaven for everyone. People value their leaders not just for what they already did, but what they promise to do in the future. And the stronger is belief (blind faith)… the more overrated are promises over already realized tasks. It is why in America and in other countries politics strongly support religion – it is wide open gate for them to trick-full common people, get power and control them. Science, education, knowledge and appealing on clear evidences leads us to safer society and reduces possibilities for liars and bulshiters to enter politics and gain power …and doesn’t let to crucify innocent people so easily by setting against them blind crowd. It is more difficult to reach agreement or right decision (for example in the same family) between believers with different opinions than between persons, who base their opinions on logic arguments and strong evidences.

Even if suppose that Hitler and Stalin were not religious themselves, but just exploited RELIGION of their people... this shows... that Hitler and Stalin appealed exactly on RELIGION (Christianity) to gain full power and realize their ideas more easily.