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churches and the rebuilding of the hierarchy under Church leadership.
In addition, Islamic Sharia was recognized in the south, Buddhism was
supported in the east and anti-Semitism was strongly disapproved of.
There was just one reason for that strange accommodation; to be able
to eliminate fascism, which had escalated into an existential danger to
communism in the war and to attract support in the fight to defeat Hit-
ler. Stalin used the influence of the Church for a long time in order to

oppose the Nazis.
Lenin set about a short-term change of economic policy in order to
reinvigorate the collapsing Russian economy and reach the levels of

capitalist countries, and adopted the principles of capitalism. Under
this system, known as the New Economic Policy (NEP), a policy allo-
wing small businesses to continue with the aim of making a profit, as
in capitalism, was adopted. The Bolsheviks regarded the NEP as a tem-
porary measure, and those policies adopted from capitalist economy
were criticized within the party. The NEP, a policy at complete varian-

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