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Atheism and human rights violations (view source)
Revision as of 13:32, March 18, 2019
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''See also:'' [[Atheism and forced labor]] and [[Atheism and communism]]
''See also:'' [[Atheism and forced labor]] and [[Atheism and communism]]
According to the [[University of Cambridge]], historically, the "most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 [[Russian Revolution]], which brought the [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninists]] to power."<ref name="Marxism-Leninism">{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20130728215151/http://www.investigatingatheism.info/marxism.html|title=Investigating atheism: Marxism|publisher = [[University of Cambridge]]|quote=The most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power. For the first time in history, atheism thus became the official ideology of a state.|year=2008|accessdate=July 17, 2014}}</ref>
According to the [[University of Cambridge]], historically, the "most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 [[Russian Revolution]], which brought the [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninists]] to power."<ref name="Marxism-Leninism">{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20130728215151/http://www.investigatingatheism.info/marxism.html|title=Investigating atheism: Marxism|publisher = [[University of Cambridge]]|quote=The most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power. For the first time in history, atheism thus became the official ideology of a state.|year=2008|accessdate=July 17, 2014}}</ref> See also: [[Atheism and communism]] and [[Soviet atheism]]
The [[Gulag]] is the extensive network of prison camps used in the atheistic [[Soviet Union]] to imprison [[Joseph Stalin]]'s political enemies. Although the prison camps housed a wide variety of criminals, it also had a large amount of political prisoners.
The [[Gulag]] is the extensive network of prison camps used in the atheistic [[Soviet Union]] to imprison [[Joseph Stalin]]'s political enemies. Although the prison camps housed a wide variety of criminals, it also had a large amount of political prisoners.