Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared communism to Christianity and likened Bolshevik revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin to a "saint" in a new interview, the Express (British) website reports today (January 17, 2018).
Putin claimed communist ideology has all the hallmarks of religion in that it is based on equality, brotherhood, and it has its own "holy scripture."
Speaking in an interview for a TV documentary called "Valaam," he said: "Faith has always accompanied us, it strengthened when our country, our people faced particularly difficult times."
"There were such severe years of militant atheism during the Soviet period when priests were killed, churches were destroyed. But at the same time a new religion was being created -- communist ideology, which is very similar to Christianity, in fact."
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