@Sn0w ☭ ❄#4209 well, Lenin did enforce anti-religion for Christian. As Muslims were oppressed in Russian Empire Lenin, bolsheviks and Stalin did try to make friendship with Muslims. But that is tactic and strategy.

@Firefly Seeing how the russian empire was generated from mouscouvy, which had to fight off jihad's as well as the khans, I could see their reasoning for that.

Here we go. Splitting straws. One is much worse or more successful ,therefore my guys are not as bad. Not that I care. If you're doing your job, people are going to want to call you terrorists. Look at Antifa.

The Bolsheviks were an alien force tbh

the Russian people were a Christian people

It was foreseen that in the future Muslim colonial states will gain greater power and sovereignty. It was very wise to support Muslim ex-colonies

and they **hated** Christians, and by that **Russians**

@Deleted User there were a reasoning indeed.

@Deleted User Though do you see hezbollah decapitating people who were not sunni, or preforming drone attacks on schools?

@Deleted User No. But this doesn't mean that you get a free pass.

'Terrorist' is just a bourgeois buzzword, anyway.

At that point UK Empire was shaking and a rising Muslim states would cripple the Imperialism of a time.

Communists were terrorists too.

Is the same now tbh

http://isj.org.uk/the-bolsheviks-and-islam/

But USA and EU is imperialist

Yeah you can argue that it was tactics, but Lenin still never enforced anti-religion laws. He knew it would have been political suicide

Whereas Stalin shut down churches and mosques and actively forced it on the people

Communism is not inherently anti-religion

Well, they even reverted to neutrality with Christianity after some time, lel

but even so, I still don't think that a person has to be atheist to be leftwinged

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_communism

yeah the did after a while

@olev It is.

It was Stalin's idea to support sovereignty of Muslim states. He argued it with the Party for couple of years.

Many were against

@Firefly Meh, this is not my area to debate in since I have little knowledge of 11th-18th century conflicts, but I have a feeling that if the UK intervened within mouscouvy against islam, it would have been minimal at best.

then what happened between 1927 and 1941

why was there so much anti-religion enforced

@Deleted User UK inspired Turks to attack Russia. Twise

@Sn0w ❄ It is a core belief of socialism that religion was a form of oppression.

*is

No.

That's an opinion, not a fact

**Sigh**

That is the core belief of some **Socialists**

Not socialism

@Sn0w ❄ I'm not sure of the internal situation with Muslims tbh. I'm speaking of foreign policy. Stalin claimed that the primary tactic to make world revolution is by attracting Muslims by supporting their anti-Imperialist and anti-colonial resistance.

First of all

@Sn0w ❄ Yet why did lenin say it was a form of oppression? And why did stalin illegalize all religons?

The only core thing about socialism is social ownership