Communists have a long history of hating Christianity.

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 …

Communists can see both action and inaction as criminal.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quotes in The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, a man by the name of Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko, the organizer of the Department of Exceptional Courts of the People’s Commissariat of Justice and therefore the “accuser” in several cases against internal enemies of the Soviet Union: “And even if the defendants here in Moscow did …