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The website Victimsofcommunism.org declares concerning atheistic communism and the use of [[torture]]:
 
The website Victimsofcommunism.org declares concerning atheistic communism and the use of [[torture]]:
 
{{cquote|Significantly, communists did not merely try to block or halt religious faith but to reverse it. This was particularly true for [[Romania]], even before the Nicolai Ceausescu era. This meant not just forbidding religious practice and jailing ministers and believers but employing torture to force them to renounce their faith. It was not enough to contain, silence, even punish believers in prison; it was decided they must be tortured in truly unimaginably degrading ways to attempt to undo religious faith.<ref>[http://victimsofcommunism.org/the-war-on-religion/ The War on religion]</ref>}}
 
{{cquote|Significantly, communists did not merely try to block or halt religious faith but to reverse it. This was particularly true for [[Romania]], even before the Nicolai Ceausescu era. This meant not just forbidding religious practice and jailing ministers and believers but employing torture to force them to renounce their faith. It was not enough to contain, silence, even punish believers in prison; it was decided they must be tortured in truly unimaginably degrading ways to attempt to undo religious faith.<ref>[http://victimsofcommunism.org/the-war-on-religion/ The War on religion]</ref>}}
      
Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian pastor of the Underground Church, wrote in his book ''Tortured for Christ'':  
 
Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian pastor of the Underground Church, wrote in his book ''Tortured for Christ'':  
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