@linuxhippie And, because it's Marxism, it will end here: https://t.co/YBIKG65q9t

— Stephen Coughlin (@S_Coughlin_DC) October 8, 2026

Lenin's ordered to Dzerzhinsky, 1 May 1919:

It is needed to get done with the priests and religion as soon as possible.  Arrest the priests as the enemies of revolution and saboteurs, execute them without mercy everywhere you spot them.  As many as you can! Churches should be shut down.  The cathedrals have to be sealed and used as warehouses. 

A note:  Ironically, a man who unleashed a massacre of orthodox priests was a baptized Orthodox Christian.  Throughout 1922 alone at least 8,000 priests, monks, and nuns were executed according to Lenin's orders.