Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn and the Evils of Soviet Communism

Solzhenitsyn, former Zek and Nobel Laureate, found the causes of the cruelty of which the Communists were capable to lie in the Marxist‐Leninist ideology. The atheistic Communists had substituted their ideology for the values of Christianity which had stood the Russians in good stead and had perdured the test of time. The Communists were bent on stamping out religion. They arrested priests, uns and those who practised their beliefs. Solzhenitsyn sees in religion the anodyne to Russia′s ills.