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struction of the church hierarchy. In addition, Muslim
sharia was permitted in the south of the country, Bud-
dhism was supported in the east and there was strong
opposition to anti-Semitism. There was but one reason for
that interesting initiative; to eliminate fascism, a growing
threat to communism in the Second World War and to
gain support for the fight to defeat Hitler. Stalin made

use of the influence of the Church in particular for the
sake of opposing Nazism for a long time.

Lenin embarked on a short-term change of economic
policy and followed capitalist principles in order to revive
the Russian economy that was fast-approaching collapse
and to attain the levels of prosperity in capitalist coun-
tries. Under this new system, known as the New Eco-
nomic Policy (NEP), a policy was
adopted that allowed small businesses
to continue with the idea of making

profits, just as under capitalism. The
Bolsheviks regarded the NEP as a tem-
porary move, and practices taken from
capitalist economies within the NEP
were criticized within the party. The
NEP, which was diametrically opposed
to the communist concept of eco-

nomics, was adopted as a necessity and
abandoned again once the requisite
economic progress had been made.
This tactic can be seen today in China's
policies toward Hong Kong.

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