“You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.”

— Joseph Stalin

A teenaged Stalin to a fellow student while studying to become a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, as quoted in Landmarks in the Life of Stalin (1942) by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, p. 9
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General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879–1953

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