Das Verhältnis des Sowjetstaates zur Religion
The Attitude of the Soviet State to Religion

Summary/Abstract: In the first of the following documents, two philosophers, in the partisan "Pravda", deal with the fundamental attitude of the Marxist doctrine and the Soviet state to religion and its future prospects in the Soviet Union. In doing so, the thesis is officially supported that Soviet people, increasingly from generation to generation, turn away from religion and turn to atheism. The slowing down of the development of atheistic education is the influence of the religiously-minded generation on the younger generation, such as a report in Komsomolskaya Pravda about a conference of Komsomol officials on the tasks of atheist propaganda and resistance, which it encounters shows (see second and third document). Elderly people also tried, if one believes the presentation in "Komsomolskaya pravda", to keep young people partly "with carrot and stick" in the religion. Finally, the atheist propaganda also takes to "horror stories", as the fourth and final contribution of this documentary shows: The youth organ tells of the ordeal of a young girl who is exposed to the persecution of his Baptist religious brothers, as they want to detach themselves from the sect.

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