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.
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.