"Religion is the opium of the people:" Karl Marx is that not clear enough?

Religionists get accused of making up data to support their arguements. Apparently when "Free thinkers do that." its free thinking.

The USSR invaded Poland because in most ways the government was a continuation of the imperial system under the Tsars. If they were trying to "save souls" they were trying to save them FROM religion.

I will post this again. If you need any of the words or concepts explained. I will be happy to do it as I am sure most others would.

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The Soviet Union was the first state to have as an ideological objective the elimination of religion[1] and its replacement with atheism as a fundamental ideological goal of the state.[2][3] Toward that end, the communist regime confiscated religious property, ridiculed religion, harassed believers, and propagated atheism in the schools.[4] The confiscation of religious assets was often based on accusations of illegal accumulation of wealth.

State atheism in the Soviet Union was known as "gosateizm,[5] and was based on the ideology of Marxism–Leninism. As the founder of the Soviet state V. I. Lenin put it:

    Religion is the opium of the people: this saying of Marx is the cornerstone of the entire ideology of Marxism about religion. All modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organizations are always considered by Marxism as the organs of bourgeois reaction, used for the protection of the exploitation and the stupefaction of the working class.[6]