POLITICAL; SOCIOLOGICAL - RELIGION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240692-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 692
• Publication Date: August 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFIC ON
CENTRAL INTELL -. GENCY
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Political; Sociological - Religion
LANGUAGE
PUBLISHED 26 Jun 1949
PUBLISHED Frunze, Kirgiz SSR
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SOURCE Sovetskaya %ir ,ziya, No 124, 1919
DATE DIST. q Aug 1949
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Religion is a support of reaction, the servant of the exploiting
ciaesee. Just like the slave owners and the feudal serf holders of the
past, the present exploiting classes of capitalist society areueinc;
religion for the spiritual bnelavement, stupefaction, and deceit of the
aeeens. This to why the reactionary bourgeoisie in contemporary capitalist
star.-sr are particularly interested in strengthening religion and in aiding
rellgiove organizations. The bourgeoisie are concerned with spreading the
sermon of Oaristianity, Budd11cm, and Islam a?d with maintaining every kind
of superstition and belief amen, the masses. An antiscientific ideological
ccncopt of the world is propagated I. capitalist echoole.
The indispensable condition for overcoming religion and freeing na-
tional groups from religious inclinations is tho annihilation of exploiting
elements. This aas beer done in the USE. The most favorable coniiticne
for spreading scientific knowledge and a materialistic world concept have
been created in Soviet society. All prerequisiteee hLvo been attained for
overcoming completely he aurvir_ls of capitalism in tha mando of the people,
including religious prejudi.cea, mane of the most vicicr_e survivals of the
past Millions of Soviet people have been liberated f_am religious ideas
and. nave broken away from religion for pond. Hcwever, it is impossible to
forget that religious nrejudicee and superstitions are still vidAspreau
among a cert:aio element of the population. Intermeshed with bourgools
habits and ideas, ra;igion Is diametricrlly ojipoeed tC the Commun+at view-
point on labor and eccialiet property. Religion considers labor to be damned,
a punishment for sins; It juetifias lnziAeee and raesiveneas; it teaches one
to have hope in God and to maintain absurd reactionary survivals in the Way
of life. Religio:'e :+urvivale are a drag on the communist instruction of the
masses. The Stalin r')nacitution baaranteeP complete freedom of conscience.
To this end. the church in the USSR is separate from the :State and th?e
school from the church. This situaticn also defines the attitutde of the
socialist State toward the question of religion.
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The Party can never hide its negative attitude towards religious beliefs
and superatitions. Tb struggle to overcome completely religious super-
stitions is a component part of all cultural-enlightenment work which our
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