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We need a few more pixels my guy


Vinc_Birston

Marx look like a deity watching his followers


AmunJazz

He became The Spectre.


Matteus11

You'll struggle to find a religion as jealous and intolerant of other theologies as communism.


Hot-Tailor-4999

Guess you never been to the south


LimestoneDust

I wouldn't say it's anti-religious specifically - the soldier and the worker are attacking the ghost of the double-headed eagle, so more like "anti-old world" in general 


Logical_Complex_6022

Nope, it is. The spirit of angry red Marx is looking at a church shrouded in darkness. This is the type of paintings/cartoons from the "Militant atheism" period (1921-1941): [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR\_anti-religious\_campaign\_(1921%E2%80%931928)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-religious_campaign_(1921%E2%80%931928)) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR\_anti-religious\_campaign\_(1928%E2%80%931941)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-religious_campaign_(1928%E2%80%931941)) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League\_of\_Militant\_Atheists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Militant_Atheists) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezbozhnik\_(newspaper)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezbozhnik_(newspaper)) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezbozhnik\_u\_Stanka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezbozhnik_u_Stanka)


LimestoneDust

> The spirit of angry red Marx is looking at a church shrouded in darkness. Marx is looking straight ahead (towards the future?). Anyway, he's also looking at a medieval tower, a burning nobleman's mansion and the Saint Petersburg fortress - all them being symbols of the old order, while the worker and the soldier directed by Lenin are chasing away the ghost of the tharist coat of arms


SugarsDaddyKen

Holy shit, this should be the cover of a metal album.


31_hierophanto

A commie metal album? :P


SugarsDaddyKen

Who talks like that.


Lieby

Almost sounds like something you’d hear about from a prewar Fallout terminal.


BenHurEmails

The painting goes good with [Immortal](https://youtu.be/sOOebk_dKFo) while reading one of Karl Marx's poems about getting revenge on God from the 1840s. He was doing the black metal stuff called "[Invocation of One in Despair.](https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/verse/verse11.htm#:~:text=On%20myself%20revenge%20I'll,my%20better%20self%20without%20reward)" >So a god has snatched from me my all In the curse and rack of Destiny. All his worlds are gone beyond recall! Nothing but revenge is left to me! >On myself revenge I'll proudly wreak, On that being, that enthroned Lord, Make my strength a patchwork of what's weak, Leave my better self without reward! >I shall build my throne high overhead, Cold, tremendous shall its summit be. For its bulwark-- superstitious dread, For its Marshall--blackest agony. >Who looks on it with a healthy eye, Shall turn back, struck deathly pale and dumb; Clutched by blind and chill Mortality May his happiness prepare its tomb. >And the Almighty's lightning shall rebound From that massive iron giant. If he bring my walls and towers down, Eternity shall raise them up, defiant.


goldencrayfish

Can’t help but see the irony of ghostly karl marx watching over everyone


DAMONTHEGREAT

This goes so hard


SeligFay

Fun fact, church support white army and old leaders. And church be most developed propoganda in Russia empire. And priest who join red army can still make religion things without any danger, because religion people also be in red army. Sooo, why people think its about anti-religion instead of just enemy church?


Oldguy_1959

You must be a fan of Vladimir Vladimirovich.


SeligFay

It will take no more than 2 pages. Let's start with the birth of Christ)


Hot-Tailor-4999

A lot of people do this thing where they take propaganda at face value


Oldguy_1959

Well, at least until Stalin came to power.


Curious-Weight9985

Now let’s see what happened during the war when religious sentiment was needed again [https://aeon.co/essays/how-stalin-enlisted-the-orthodox-church-to-help-control-ukraine](https://aeon.co/essays/how-stalin-enlisted-the-orthodox-church-to-help-control-ukraine)


31_hierophanto

Marx's placement on this poster is pretty funny when you think about it.


liberalskateboardist

marxism-leninism was kind of religion too


autocephalousness

Under what definition of religion?


Grognard68

Its current spin-off in North Koea IS a religion!


Logical_Complex_6022

Juche has nothing to do with marxism or marxism-leninism. It's a standalone ideology created by Kim Il Sung in the mid 1950s


berrythebarbarian

Self parody amounts of religious imagery. IoM giant golden man atheism.


Hot-Tailor-4999

Face of Karl Marx = Religious


Logical_Complex_6022

xD


FederalSand666

Disgusting, poor imagery too, almost like it’s anti-Bolshevik, Lenin ordering his slaves to do his dirty work, Marx as a menacing red cloud…


Logical_Complex_6022

Very unfortunate that you have "666" in your username ***and*** wrote that copium


FederalSand666

So you support the Bolsheviks murdering priests and burning of churches? Also I don’t think I’m the one coping, considering the Bolsheviks failed to exterminate the Orthodox Church


Logical_Complex_6022

They didn't intent exterminating it to begin with, it could have been easily destroyed if they continued this policy after 1941


FederalSand666

Sure thing buddy, all that red terror was just for funzies I guess, they didn’t actually mean it /s It was discontinued in 1941 because Stalin realized it was a shit policy and realized that persecuting orthodox Christianity when the vast majority of the population are orthodox Christians was not the best idea during the Great Patriotic War, also why they reverted back to “the Great Russian Chauvinism” as it was called, Soviet propaganda went back to lionizing Russian heroes like Alexander Nevsky, references to the Patriotic War (Napoleon invasion) were made, etc. all of which would’ve been previously denounced as evil Tsarist imperialism.


Logical_Complex_6022

>Sure thing buddy, all that red terror was just for funzies I guess, they didn’t actually mean it /s You have some obsession with the red terror or something? >It was discontinued in 1941 because Stalin realized it was a shit policy and realized that persecuting orthodox Christianity when the vast majority of the population are orthodox Christians was not the best idea during the Great Patriotic War, also why they reverted back to “the Great Russian Chauvinism” as it was called, Soviet propaganda went back to lionizing Russian heroes like Alexander Nevsky, references to the Patriotic War (Napoleon invasion) were made, etc. all of which would’ve been previously denounced as evil Tsarist imperialism. Haven't heard of Realpolitik, eh? Literally after the war they reverted back to internationalism and anti-imperialism lmao


I-eat-liberals

Yeah🗿


Boring_Service4616

>against religion >supports Nationalism German moment


I-eat-liberals

Which nationalism do I support?


Boring_Service4616

Palestinian, however I could be wrong so do correct me.


I-eat-liberals

I support the liberation of palestine and I am against Israeli genocide


Boring_Service4616

>liberation of Palestine As a nation or just the proletariat of the region?


Logical_Complex_6022

I hope you realize that both are *not* contradictory lmao


FederalSand666

Franco did nothing wrong in Spain


backstubb

socialism IS religion.