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And once again, power not atheism was behind Stalin's atrocities. He even did in his closest subordinates. That is true of all totalitarians, especially the religious one. Their god tells them they are doing the right thing.
"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion"

Nobel Laureate in Physics Steven Weinberg