Page 103 - Communism in Ambush

A propaganda poster for the Third Communist International, organized by the
Soviet Union. The cold world of Communism is reflected on the face of the militant
carrying the flag.

press, in the freest way possible, the innate tendencies created within it.
The Communist dictatorship founded in the Soviet Union—later copied
by regimes in China, the Eastern Bloc, Indochina and Cuba—completely
removed this free and comfortable environment. They killed art by sub-
jecting their peoples to constant oppression.
Above all, by alienating them from religion, Communism delivered
art the biggest blow. Foremost of those feelings that inspire art is the
spiritual pleasure and fervor derived from religion. All of history's
greatest artists, sculptors and architects created works based on reli-
gious themes and drew strength and inspiration from their spiritual be-
liefs. They did not regard a human as a species of animal that would
perish with death, but as a being that God endowed with spirit. They
loved to extol humanity in their works and show reflections of God's
artistry in creation. In societies with no religion, people inevitably lose
this fervor and sense of pleasure and become encompassed by a spiritual
purposelessness. This has been experienced in every Communist
regime. As a result of irreligion and the ideas that a human being is a