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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Stalin also spent the rest of his life there after persecuting jews and catholics, kinda funny how it works out. And Hitler might've been born and raised a catholic, but ze Furor was definitely into the occult.
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Stalin's mother always told him that she wished he had become a Priest. I am not sure if Stalin was fundamentally anti-semetic or anti-religious, or if he was just a good Marxist (religion is the opium of the people and the sigh of the oppressed creature and all that - although in my opinion Lenin and Khruschev were the only truly Marxist "believers" to lead the USSR) or he just did it to divide and conquer the Soviet people. I think he persecuted many groups within the USSR, my feeling would be he attacked any social groups other than the Party, rather than he especially hated Jews. Russia, after all, offered Jews fleeing the Nazi's a chance to fight (while countries like Britain turned away Jewish immigrants in the late 30's...)
Hitler was definitely into a lot of occult and pagan stuff... but that is a religion also I guess, and I think it did play a part in his world view.