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The iconography of atheism: Soviets against God! Weve finished the earthly tsars and were coming for the heavenly ones! Thus spoke the Soviet Unions first atheist propagandists as they declared war on the opium of the people across the USSR. Soviet atheism is the great lost subject of the 20th century. Pope Pius XI led a crusade of prayer against it George Orwell satirized it in Animal Farm the Nazis called it a Jewish plot Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured Stalin to abandon it: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn blamed it for Russias catastrophes and Ronald Reagan put it at the core of his Evil Empire speech. And yet, because the Soviet Union promoted atheism almost entirely for domestic consumption, decades worth of arcane and astonishing anti-religious imagery remains unknown in the West. Drawing on the early Soviet atheist magazines Read more