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Line 5: − The atheism in communistic regimes has been and continues to be [[militant atheism]] and various acts of repression including the razing of thousands of religious buildings and the killing, imprisoning, and oppression of religious leaders and believers.<ref>http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2000/March_2000_4.html</ref><ref>http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/frroman1.aspx</ref><ref>http://www.nysun.com/article/23082?page_no=1</ref><ref>http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/7/120250.shtml</ref><ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_26_116/ai_56249447</ref><ref>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35818</ref><ref>http://theworldnow.wordpress.com/tag/around-the-world/asia/china/</ref>+ + + + + + +
→Communism and Militant Atheism: Sources are biased, vague or don't even exist: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/7/120250.shtml
[[Vladimir Lenin]] similarly wrote: "A Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist, i. e., one who treats the struggle against religion not in an abstract way, not on the basis of remote, purely theoretical, never varying preaching, but in a concrete way, on the basis of the class struggle which is going on in practice and is educating the masses more and better than anything else could."
[[Vladimir Lenin]] similarly wrote: "A Marxist must be a materialist, i. e., an enemy of religion, but a dialectical materialist, i. e., one who treats the struggle against religion not in an abstract way, not on the basis of remote, purely theoretical, never varying preaching, but in a concrete way, on the basis of the class struggle which is going on in practice and is educating the masses more and better than anything else could."
Because of the oppression the church symbolized during the the latest millenium, often being aligned with the oppressive governments <ref>http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1973883,00.html</ref>, being the source of the oppression <ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Inquisition.html</ref>
<Ref>http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM</ref> and according to the Marxists themsleves <ref>http://www.marxist.com/religion-soviet-union170406-6.htm</ref> being the cause of oppression and poverty by owning 7,5 million acres of land and property worth well over 150.000.000 the church was deemed to be a cause of problems rather than a reliver of those.
Later the clergy openly stated its support for the White Revolution (contra revolution) causing further deaths both of the reds and the whites. Lenin thus proclaimed that a communist regime cannot remain neutral on the question of religion but must show itself to be merciless towards it. There was no place for the church in Lenin's classless society. This led to the declaration of the separation of church and state in the Soviet constitution, giving its citizens the "right" not to be fed with religious and anti-religious propaganda.
Ironicly enough all church property, not some or much of it, was nationalized by the new Soviet government. <ref>http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-42047/Union-of-Soviet-Socialist-Republics#277888.hook</ref>
During the late 1930's and later 1940's the restrictions on church activity were loosened as Stalin needed all the support he could get for the war. This doctrine of co-operation between the church and state continued through out the existance of the Soviety republics and the other Warszawa pact nations.
==Theory and horror==
==Theory and horror==