User blog comment:Weedle McHairybug/Peace doesn't really sound very good to me... (various MG references and real life references ahead)./@comment-77.27.160.189-20121102121945/@comment-1672596-20121102123837

Stalin was actually deposed as soon as he was killed. In fact, I heard that Khrushchev leaked out some crimes that Stalin caused, and people immediately turned against him despite attending his funeral, not to mention the tearing down of Stalin's statue in Hungary (which a documentary I saw during the 9th grade about the life of Stalin implied was the result of Khrushchev's leak). And despite that, they still tried to persecute and exterminate any and all religious people during this time. And BTW, most communist leaders were not looked up to after Stalin's death, so they ddin't have that either. Heck, Lenin himself stated Stalin was a bad idea to nominate as the next Soviet leader.

And again, I implied that North Korea was an exception to the rule regarding atheism when I said "I don't know about North Korea." And you can't hate religions if you yourself are a religion. That's nonsensical. Communism was explicitly stated to be irreligious. It only superficially resembled one, but it really isn't a religion at all, and the fact that they don't believe in God, they don't believe in an afterlife (If they did, they obviously would have been perfectly willing to undergo nuclear extermination, like how Islam was willing to get itself killed to get to the afterlife, or wouldn't fear death and allow themselves to be killed if needed be), and they don't believe in ANYTHING supernatural at all makes that perfectly clear. Religion requires a lot more than simply a belief in a deity. You're confusing religion with a belief system or a faith.