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Bolsheviks, abandoned his reli-
gion as the result of evolutionist
propaganda:
One young worker "proved" to
him that God had not created
man by showing that, if one
filled a box with earth and kept
it warm, worms and insects
would eventually appear in it.
This sort of vulgarized pre-
Darwinian science, which was
widely found in the left-wing Stalin became close to Lenin in his
latter days and tried to advance
pamphlets of that time, had a
within the party. Upon Lenin's
tremendous impact on young death, Stalin overcame his rivals
workers like Kanatchikov… and became the Soviet Union's sole
ruler.
"Now my emancipation from
my old prejudices moved for-
ward at an accelerated tempo," later he wrote. "I stopped going to the
priest for confession, no longer attended church, and began to eat 'forbid-
den' food."
Such examples as the one quoted above, used to support the claim
that God did not create life (surely God is beyond that claim) and that
everything came to be by chance, were sheer bogus. Worms and insects
did not arise by happenstance—out of nothing, as the medieval belief in
spontaneous generation had it—but from eggs laid in the ground. But
because the scientific world was not yet aware that living creatures
could never be generated from lifeless matter, such myths as these arose
like a flood, drowning the half-ignorant Russian youth in atheism.
Members of the atheist generation that grew up in Russia in the
19th century, emerged in the 20th century as passionate Communists.
One of them was Stalin. In 1898 he joined a secret Communist organiza-
tion and began to write for a Communist magazine, Brdzola (The
Struggle), in 1901. By 1917, he was an active militant of the Communist
movement led by Lenin. After the October Revolution of 1917, he be-
came one of the five members of the Politburo, the highest degree of