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Opium of the masses: Russia’s Communists are flirting with faith in God but, in upcoming elections, can they hope for a miracle?

In the aftermath of the 1917 revolution, and during the “Great Terror” of 1937/38, Soviet communists declared war on religious…

3 years ago

China’s crackdown on the ‘spiritual opium’ of gaming is part of a big social revolution pitting collectivism against individualism

The scale of Xi Jinping’s social revolution intensifies every day, and nothing seems to be safe from its reach. To…

3 years ago

Opium dens in the United States in the nineteenth century. Photo

Fashion on Smoking of opium came to North America with the large influx of Chinese workers in the 1840s and…

7 years ago

“The opium of the people”: how the Soviet Union fought against religion. Photo

Art poster Communist fought with God, too. And was fine! Many of the pictures harder that allows a "Charlie Hebdo".To…

7 years ago