What role was religion and God allowed to play in the Soviet Union?

1 Answer
Mar 16, 2017

Religion was forbidden in the Soviet Union.

Explanation:

According to Marxism, religion was the "opiate of the masses" which is why an intense persecution of religion was carried out in the Soviet Union.

Religion was accuse of being an ailenation and a means for the oppressors to have the oppressed masses accept their inferior state.

Churches and cathedrals were very often destoyed or reconverted in farms.