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There can be nothing more abominable than religion. 117
We must combat religion—that is the ABC of all materialism, and conse-
quently of Marxism. 118
… to be an atheist, which every socialist is… 119
Even the bare mention of a citizen’s religion in official documents should
unquestionably be eliminated. No subsidies should be granted to the es-
tablished church nor state allowances made to ecclesiastical and religious
societies. 120
Lenin, with his rebellious spirit against God and religion, lost his
mental balance and suffered great pain. God returned to Lenin in this
world some of the cruelty he inflicted on people with his hostility to reli-
gion. The Qur'an (58:5-6) speaks of the terrible recompense that such
cruel people will receive on the Last Day:
Those who oppose God and His Messenger will be subdued and
overcome as those before them were also subdued and overcome.
We have sent down Clear Signs. The disbelievers will have a hu-
miliating punishment. On the Day God raises up all of them to-
gether, He will inform them of what they did. God has recorded it
while they have forgotten it. God is a Witness of all things.
When Stalin rose to power, he was just as anti-religious as his pred-
ecessor. He displayed his hostility by killing millions of believers, de-
stroying religious institutions and places of worship, and by initiating
endless atheist propaganda. One of the most important weapons in
Stalin's propaganda attack was the theory of evolution. In his autobiog-
raphy, he wrote:
In order to disabuse the minds of our seminary students of the
myth that the world was created in six days, we had to acquaint
ourselves with the geological origin and age of the earth, and be
able to prove them in argument; we had to familiarize ourselves
with Darwin's teachings. 121
In the book Anarchism or Socialism?, Stalin pits Darwin against
Cuvier, a creationist scientist and founder of the science of fossils. He
writes, " "Marxism rests on Darwinism and treats it uncritically, i.e., the
Marxists repudiate Cuvier's cataclysms." 122
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, who succeeded Stalin as the First