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   The League of Militant Atheists was an antireligious organization of workers   
   and intelligentsia that developed in Soviet Russia under influence of the   
   ideological and cultural views and policies of the Communist Party of the   
   Soviet Union from 1925-1947.    
   It consisted of party members, members of the Komsomol youth movement, those   
   without specific political affiliation, workers and military veterans   
      
   The league embraced workers, peasants, students, and intelligentsia. It had   
   its first affiliates at factories, plants, collective farms (kolkhozy), and   
   educational institutions. By the beginning of 1941 it had about 3.5 million   
   members from 100    
   ethnicities. It had about 96,000 offices across the country. Guided by   
   Bolshevik principles of communist propaganda and by the Party's orders with   
   regards to religion, the League aimed at exterminating religion in all its   
   manifestations and forming an    
   anti-religious scientific mindset among the workers. It propagated atheism and   
   scientific achievements, conducted so-called "individual work" (a method of   
   sending atheist tutors to meet with individual believers to attempt to make   
   them renounce their    
   faith); most of the peasantry was unimpressed, and even the party apparatus   
   regarded the League as meddling and inefficient. The League's slogan was   
   "Struggle against religion is struggle for socialism", which was meant to tie   
   in their atheist views with    
   the Communist drive to 'build Socialism'. One of the slogans adopted at the   
   2nd congress proclaimed: "Struggle against religion is struggle for the   
   five-year plan!" The League had international connections; it was part of the   
   International of Proletarian    
   Freethinkers and later of the Worldwide Freethinkers Union. By the mid-1930s,   
   the Communist regime considered socialism to have been 'built', and the League   
   adopted a new slogan: "Struggle against religion is struggle for communism",   
   communism being the    
   next stage after socialism according to Marxist ideology.   
      
   The league was a "nominally independent organization established by the   
   Communist Party to promote atheism". It published newspapers, journals, and   
   other materials that lampooned religion; it sponsored lectures and films; it   
   organized demonstrations and    
   parades; it set up antireligious museums; and it led a concerted effort   
   telling Soviet citizens that religious beliefs and practices were wrong and   
   harmful, and that good citizens ought to embrace a scientific, atheistic   
   worldview.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Militant_Atheists#   
      
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