Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the Soviet reaction in 1922 to the Christian churches:
The noxious fumes of Christianity were poisoning the revolutionary will. That kind of unity and that way of handing over the [church] valuables were not what the starving people of the Volga needed! The spineless membership of the Petrograd Pomgol* was changed. The newspapers began to howl about the “evil pastors” and “princes of the church,” and the representatives of the church were told: “We don’t need your donations! And there won’t be any negotiations with you! Everything belongs to the government–and the government will take whatever it considers necessary.”
And so, forcible requisitions, accompanied by strife, began in Petrograd, as they did everywhere else.
And this provided the legal basis for initiating trials of the clergy.
The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, p 346
*State Commission for Famine Relief
Worth Noting: The U.S. Democratic Party eerily alluded to the Soviets’ “Everything belongs to the government” mindset ninety years later with its “The government is the only thing we all belong to” video at its 2012 national convention: