Abstract
Lamarck and Darwin have killed God, finally, and for all time, so that He may never reappear after such blows. These great murderers deserve the gratitude of all mankind. Here is Vladimir Taneev, whose statement, published in 1879 on 'Communism States of the Future', reflects the anti-religious feeling of the socialist doctrine. Likewise, once the Soviet regime was established in 1917, Lenin launched an anti-religious policy, particularly directed against the Russian Orthodox Church. And yet, under the Soviet authorities, we could hear Stalin celebrated as "our happiness" or "our teacher, "our father", "our vozhd". The leaders, Lenin and Stalin were described with superhuman qualities of immortality, infallibility and perfectibility, and their images in political posters were represented the same way as icons in the Russian Orthodox Church. Indeed, these two leaders received the same treatment as the god of a religion, and yet, the regime advocated an anti-religious policy. We will therefore take an interest to the implementation of the anti-religious policy, at the time of the development of the cult, and,we will then deal with the reasons for this cult and the different way it manifested itself.
