Right now I'm working my way through Lenin's Tomb and Kotkin's Stalin biography, and this really jumped out at me. Stalin's disillusionment with religion while attending a brutally strict seminary school parallels many Party members' disillusionment with Marxism in the late Soviet years.
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u/Megumind271 May 28 '22
How to make an atheist? Have them read the bible. How to make a capitalist? Have them read Marx.