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have an account! Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot Were Stalin, Mao
Zedong and Pol Pot atheists? Did their atheism have an impact on
their actions and subsequent atrocities? One could make a valid
claim that since Stalin attended a Russian orthodox seminary
(from 1894 to 1899) as a teenager in Tiflis, the dogmatic black
or white outlook of the world influenced his subsequent actions.
As the historian Alan Bullock in his book Hitler and Stalin:
Parallel Lives (1991) explained: The fact that it was a Church
education helped to form the mind of a man who was to become
known for his dogmatism and his propensity for seeing issues in
absolute terms, in black and white. Anyone reading Stalin's
speeches and writings will notice their catechistic structure,
the use of question and answer, the reduction of complex
questions to a set of simplified formulas, the quoting of text
to support his arguments. The same Church influence has been
noted by biographers in