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Originally Posted by driveway
I'm reasonably sure that in the USSR they felt that the division between classes was the cause of all the ills in society and religion was a tool that was used by the ruling class to maintain the division between classes.
It wasn't so much that they wanted to eradicate religion because it was inherently evil, but because it was invariably used for evil. So, you could think of the efforts of the communists to get rid of religion as akin to a very harsh form of gun control.
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Not really. Communists saw religion as the enemy because the religion (Christianity) was resisting changes imposed by communists on the whole society. Christians were labelled as "reactionary" or "counter-revolutionary", because they resisted the so-called "progress towards a bright future" ie resisted the uprooting of conservative values and replacing them with the marxist-leninist nonsense. In short, religion was the shield people were using to resist communist dogma that violently turned their world upside down.