alanjjohnstone wrote:
Putin plays the religion card in re-election campaignhttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42707957
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He [Putin] then argues that communism and Christianity are essentially the same ideas, and compares the mausoleum of Bolshevik revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin to the Christian tradition of church relics
During WWII Stalin also played the religion card along with the Russian Orthodox Church, and the same church asked the Vatican to support the apostle of God known as Josef Stalin, and they rejected it because they have different plan with the allied, the German Nazis and the Italian Fascists