Image: Stock Photo. FreeImages.com Early in its existence, the Soviet Union turned Vladimir Lenin’s dictum that “religion is the opium of the people” into official policy. Atheism was what Lenin wanted for the Soviet empire, and it’s what it got. Assuring such an outcome were laws discouraging faith — such as requirements that religions register with the state — and denying Communist Party membership to anyone religious. Many people expected a flowering of faith when the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991. But it hasn’t happened, largely because the countries that emerged from the ashes of the USSR have repressed most …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
