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| | [[File:Martyred in the USSR Poster.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|The above photograph shows the Russian Nikolai Khmara, a new Baptist convert in the [[Soviet Union]], after his arrest by the [[KGB]]. He was tortured to death and his tongue cut out.<ref>Double references: | | [[File:Martyred in the USSR Poster.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|The above photograph shows the Russian Nikolai Khmara, a new Baptist convert in the [[Soviet Union]], after his arrest by the [[KGB]]. He was tortured to death and his tongue cut out.<ref>Double references: |
| − | *Gonzales, Kevin (January 29, 2013 or bef.). [http://martyredintheussr.com/ "Martyred in the USSR Militant Atheism in the former Soviet Union, Russian Orthodox church, religious persecution, atheist"] Martyred in the USSR website. See [[Martyred in the USSR: Militant Atheism in the former Soviet Union]]. | + | *Gonzales, Kevin (January 29, 2013 or bef.). [http://martyredintheussr.com/ "Martyred in the USSR Militant Atheism in the former Soviet Union, Russian Orthodox church, religious persecution, atheist"] Martyred in the USSR website. |
| | *Hoover, Peter with Petrov, Serguei V. (2005). [http://www.anabaptists.org/books/russians/trs-1.html "Anabaptists: The Russians' Secret -- Speaking without a Tongue".] ''The Russians' Secret: What Christians Today Would Survive Persecution?'' Anabaptists.org website/books/Russians (Shippensburg, PA: Benchmark Press, 1999), ch. 1, pp. 1-3.</ref> See: [[Atheistic communism and torture]] ]] | | *Hoover, Peter with Petrov, Serguei V. (2005). [http://www.anabaptists.org/books/russians/trs-1.html "Anabaptists: The Russians' Secret -- Speaking without a Tongue".] ''The Russians' Secret: What Christians Today Would Survive Persecution?'' Anabaptists.org website/books/Russians (Shippensburg, PA: Benchmark Press, 1999), ch. 1, pp. 1-3.</ref> See: [[Atheistic communism and torture]] ]] |
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| | [[Nobel Prize]] winner [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] was asked to account for the great tragedies that occurred under the brutal communist regime he and fellow citizens suffered under. | | [[Nobel Prize]] winner [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] was asked to account for the great tragedies that occurred under the brutal communist regime he and fellow citizens suffered under. |
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| − | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn offered the following explanation: | + | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn stated: |
| | {{cquote|Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen [[Russia]]: 'Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.' | | {{cquote|Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen [[Russia]]: 'Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.' |
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| | *[[Atheism and communism]] | | *[[Atheism and communism]] |
| | *[[Soviet Union and morality]] | | *[[Soviet Union and morality]] |
| | + | *[[Atheism and authoritarianism]] |
| | *[[Atheism]] | | *[[Atheism]] |
| | *[[Atheism and Karl Marx]] | | *[[Atheism and Karl Marx]] |
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| | ==References== | | ==References== |
| | {{reflist|2}} | | {{reflist|2}} |
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| | + | [[Category: Atheism]] |
| | + | [[Category:Communism]] |