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Communism and materialism's hostility toward religion re-
vealed itself in its full intensity during and after the Bolshevik
Revolution. Stalin ordered dozens of churches and mosques torn
down, a sign of communism's hatred of religion. Although the

great majority of the Russian population was religious, they were
prevented from fulfilling their observances. The tradition of a
common holiday on Sundays, when Christians attend church,
was abandoned. Everyone was to work for five days, resting on
any of the other days of the week. By 1936, 65% of the mosques
and 70% of the churches had been demolished. In 1967, Enver
Hodja, the communist leader of Albania who was renowned for
his atheism, declared Albania to be the world's first religion-free
state.
Clergymen were arrested for no reason, and some were
killed while in detention. In 1948 two bishops and 5,000 clergy
were executed. Muslims were being murdered in the same way.
The country's daily Nendori announced that a total of 2,169
mosques and churches, 327 of them Catholic places of worship,
had been closed.
Today, dialectical materialism and
communism may seem to have col-