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Furthermore, under militant atheist policies, Church property was expropriated.<ref>Multiple references:

Furthermore, under militant atheist policies, Church property was expropriated.<ref>Multiple references:

::{{cite book|author= R. J. Overy |year=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA271 |page=271 |title=The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|quote=The communist regime treated the Church as a political institution rather than as a set of beliefs. On 28 January 1918 the Russian Orthodox Church was formally separated from the state; religious belief was permitted as long as it did not threaten public order or trespass on political soil. Religious property was liquidated, and a twenty-year programme of church closures begun. Religion was banned from schools. The state and the party were officially atheist.}}

::{{cite book|author= R. J. Overy |year=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YWUxDKN80BgC&pg=PA271 |page=271 |title=The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|quote=The communist regime treated the Church as a political institution rather than as a set of beliefs. On 28 January 1918 the Russian Orthodox Church was formally separated from the state; religious belief was permitted as long as it did not threaten public order or trespass on political soil. Religious property was liquidated, and a twenty-year programme of church closures begun. Religion was banned from schools. The state and the party were officially atheist.}}

::{{cite book|author=Richard Sakwa |year=1999 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EoQXhV8XTFUC&pg=PA74 |page=74 |title=The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917–1991|publisher=Psychology Press|quote=Marx's view on religion as the 'opiate of the people' under the Bolsheviks took the form a militant atheism that sought to destroy the social sources of the power of the Church, and to extirpate religious belief as a social phenomenon. Uner the slogan of separating Church and state, the Bolsheviks in effect expropriated church property and dramatically limited the Church's ability to conduct a normal religious life.}}</ref>

::{{cite book|author=[[Richard Sakwa]] |year=1999 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EoQXhV8XTFUC&pg=PA74 |page=74 |title=The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917–1991|publisher=Psychology Press|quote=Marx's view on religion as the 'opiate of the people' under the Bolsheviks took the form a militant atheism that sought to destroy the social sources of the power of the Church, and to extirpate religious belief as a social phenomenon. Uner the slogan of separating Church and state, the Bolsheviks in effect expropriated church property and dramatically limited the Church's ability to conduct a normal religious life.}}</ref>

Moreover, not only was religion banned from the school and university system, but pupils were to be indoctrinated with atheism and antireligious teachings.<ref>Multiple references:

Moreover, not only was religion banned from the school and university system, but pupils were to be indoctrinated with atheism and antireligious teachings.<ref>Multiple references:

::{{cite book|author=J. D. Van der Vyver, John Witte|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSnpr1ndq5kC&pg=PA290 |page=290 |title=Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|year=1996|quote=Moreover, schools were not merely to avoid the teaching of religion; they were actively to promote the teaching of atheism.}}

::{{cite book|author=J. D. Van der Vyver, John Witte|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSnpr1ndq5kC&pg=PA290 |page=290 |title=Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Legal Perspectives|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|year=1996|quote=Moreover, schools were not merely to avoid the teaching of religion; they were actively to promote the teaching of atheism.}}