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His books featured [[murder]], [[torture]], [[blasphemy]] and grotesque, [[violent]], and ritualistic sex.  His more major works remain banned in many countries to the present day, even though some of them have been highly influential; ''Juliet'', a book released early in his career, has been imitated right up until the present, most recently by radical [[feminism|feminist]] [[Andrea Dworkin]].

His books featured [[murder]], [[torture]], [[blasphemy]] and grotesque, [[violent]], and ritualistic sex.  His more major works remain banned in many countries to the present day, even though some of them have been highly influential; ''Juliet'', a book released early in his career, has been imitated right up until the present, most recently by radical [[feminism|feminist]] [[Andrea Dworkin]].

== Widespread use of torture in the Soviet Union ==

== Torture was often used in the Soviet Union ==

In atheistic [[communism|communist]] regime of the [[Soviet Union]], torture was widely used to extract false confessions to establish that individuals were "enemies of the people" - particularly under the [[Militant atheism|militant atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]]'s regime.<ref>Alexander Solzhenitsyn. "The Gulag Archipelago"</ref>

In atheistic [[communism|communist]] regime of the [[Soviet Union]], torture was often used to extract false confessions to establish that individuals were "enemies of the people" - particularly under the [[Militant atheism|militant atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]]'s regime.<ref>Alexander Solzhenitsyn. "The Gulag Archipelago"</ref>

== Marquis de Sade quote ==

== Marquis de Sade quote ==