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...decades, religion was anathema to all good Soviets. Did not Marx teach that it was the "opium of the people"? Lenin himself wrote that the Russian Orthodox Church had to be suppressed, its treasure confiscated. But last week the hold of the atheistic Communist Party loosened a bit more as the state strengthened religious freedoms. With the Orthodox Patriarch, Alexei II, and other religious leaders watching, the Supreme Soviet, by a vote of 341 to 1, gave preliminary approval to a law that forbids the government to restrict "the study, financing or propagandizing" of religion...
Stalin knew perfectly well who might have voted against him -- certainly not the likes of Khrushchev, who had risen through the ranks under Stalin and who deified him. No, Stalin understood that it was the old cadres from Lenin's time who were displeased with...
Stalin answered slowly, in a low voice. "Well, everyone talks about how smart Russians are. Look how smart we are now." On another occasion, early in the war, he said, "Lenin left us a state and we turned it to shit...
Political debates begin there. Outside one of only three automobile dealerships in all of Moscow, a tall uniformed general fumes. "I have to line up six times at this same window to have my car registered," says he. "Lenin said, 'Socialism is inventory,' but surely not this kind of inventory...