Super Yachts though. Brilliant counter argument.
Putin Says Communism Comes From the Bible, Compares Lenin to a Saint
"Maybe I am about to say something that some people will not like, but I will say what I think," he says.
"Firstly, faith has always accompanied us. It strengthened when things were hard for our people's country. There have been harsh, godfighting years when clerics were destroyed and churches were ruined. But at the same time (Soviets) created a new religion. Indeed, communist ideology is very similar to Christianity."
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Lenin, an atheist who espoused the Marxist view that religion was "the opium of the people," inspired an active campaign to confiscate church property, while his successor, Joseph Stalin, demolished Moscow's biggest cathedral in 1931. In its place he planned a public swimming pool compete with a giant
statue of Lenin. Stalin ran out of money for the project but it was later built by Stalin's successor, Nikita Krushchev.
But Putin argues that like Christianity, communism preaches "freedom, brotherhood, equality." He called the
Moral Code of the Builder of Communism, a pamphlet of guiding principles for all party members, a "primitive excerpt from the Bible."
Communism, like Christianity, preaches "freedom, brotherhood, equality," he said.
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