In my experience, religious people fall for Bolshevik propaganda really easily because the Bolsheviks frame everything in a "nice" and "virtuous" manner. Take the communist manifesto for example. In it, Marx basically takes all the problems of communism and blames it on capitalism; thereby, making communism sound great. This is a common Bolshevik tactic. Unfortunately, many religious people hear the "nice words" but then have no idea they're actually supporting the very problem in society because they lack real world wisdom.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. This explains so much of why communists love bragging about being on the "right side of history". Because they're so full of themselves thinking they're doing good deeds.
Bolsheviks were famously anti-religious, following Marx in that ("opium for the masses").
They also never tried to be any "nice", boasting of their Red Terror, which was their own phrase, and the Iron Felix style iron fist of the Proletaryat (in the Dictatorship of the Proletaryat).
Anti established religion does not mean they shun the methods religions use to control followers. Their crusades certainly aren't nice, but they frame it as promoting a greater good which is how they get so many useful idiots to their cause.
The themes like "Stalin, the friend of all children" came only after achieving totalitarian power. Revolutionary struggle themes were all angry and violent.
In my experience, religious people fall for Bolshevik propaganda really easily because the Bolsheviks frame everything in a "nice" and "virtuous" manner. Take the communist manifesto for example. In it, Marx basically takes all the problems of communism and blames it on capitalism; thereby, making communism sound great. This is a common Bolshevik tactic. Unfortunately, many religious people hear the "nice words" but then have no idea they're actually supporting the very problem in society because they lack real world wisdom.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. This explains so much of why communists love bragging about being on the "right side of history". Because they're so full of themselves thinking they're doing good deeds.
Bolsheviks were famously anti-religious, following Marx in that ("opium for the masses").
They also never tried to be any "nice", boasting of their Red Terror, which was their own phrase, and the Iron Felix style iron fist of the Proletaryat (in the Dictatorship of the Proletaryat).
Anti established religion does not mean they shun the methods religions use to control followers. Their crusades certainly aren't nice, but they frame it as promoting a greater good which is how they get so many useful idiots to their cause.
The themes like "Stalin, the friend of all children" came only after achieving totalitarian power. Revolutionary struggle themes were all angry and violent.
Yes, but those themes were laundered by complicit media and academia as being in service of goodness.