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From Freethought Nation:
Josef Stalin's "very religious" mother named him after St. Joseph, and wanted him to become a priest. Stalin himself supposedly claimed that his father had been a priest, and he was purportedly "damaged by violence" while being "raised in a poor priest-ridden household." As a youth, Stalin spent five years in a Greek Orthodox seminary, after which he purportedly renounced his religion....
From:
Were Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot atheists?
Saturday, 17 April 2010 16:24 Acharya S
In debunking atheism and using the tu quoque or "you too!" argument to point fingers in the opposite direction whenever religious atrocities are raised, defenders of theism often bring up the notion that some of the most destructive and genocidal ideologies in history, Communism, Nazism and "Pol Potery," were "atheistic," because their leaders were "atheists."...
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