a few more decades of people growing up without religious indoctrination would’ve broken the ideological chain and gone a long way towards keeping it from springing back up.
Yeah dude the thing that created issues for the soviets was opportunism with regards to clergy being allowed in the soviets, not the entire institutional left siding with fascist and the germans invading.
A move which, famously, solved religion forever and didn’t create weakpoints ripe for exploitation by their enemies.
Excessive haste in achieving Communism, demanding the masses catch up. This is another type of idealism.
they didn’t purge religion hard enough
a few more decades of people growing up without religious indoctrination would’ve broken the ideological chain and gone a long way towards keeping it from springing back up.
Yeah dude the thing that created issues for the soviets was opportunism with regards to clergy being allowed in the soviets, not the entire institutional left siding with fascist and the germans invading.