Tag: Communism

I’m feeling on top of the world, in line with Lenin’s belief that religion is “opium for the people. … Spiritual booze in which the slaves of capital drown their human image.” Lenin argued often that God is a “figment of man’s imagination,” so Communists “must combat religion — this is the ABC of all materialism, and consequently Marxism.”

“The spiritual choice made by St Vladimir still largely determines our affinity today” Putin wrote only last year. “In the words of Oleg the Prophet about Kyev, “let it be the mother of all Russian cities”.