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Religious persecution by communists

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Enver Hoxha
former First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, Prime Minister of Albania
Xinjiang internment camps
Chinese concentration camps in XUAR province, where religious and ethnic repression is carried out against traditionally Muslim peoples, classified as ethnocide, ethnic cleansing and genocide
Cambodian genocide
genocide of as many as 3,000,000 Cambodians by communist Khmer Rogue in 1975–79
persecution of Uyghurs in China
ongoing persecution of ethnic and religious minorities in northwestern China under Xi Jinping's administration
state atheism
official promotion of atheism by a government
religion in China
religion in the country
Killing Fields
locations of mass killings during the Cambodian genocide
Songbun
Songbun (), formally chulsin-songbun (, from Sino-Korean 出身, "origin" and 成分, "constituent"), is the system of ascribed status used in North Korea. According to the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the American Enterprise Institute, it is based on the political, social, and economic background of one's direct ancestors as well as the behavior of their relatives; according to the North Korean secret police, songbun is used to classify North Korean citizens into three primary castes—core, wavering, and hostile—in addition to approximately fifty sub-classifications, and determin
Marxist‒Leninist atheism
irreligious and anti-clerical element of Marxism–Leninism
Watchman Nee
Chinese church leader (1903–1972)
Josef Beran
Czech cardinal, professor and theologist (1888–1969)
Operation North
mass deportation of Jehovah's Witnesses to Siberia
Four Olds
elements of Chinese culture (Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Habits, Old Customs) purged during Mao’s Cultural Revolution
Hujum
300px|thumbnail|right|A veil-burning ceremony in Andijan, Uzbekistan, on Women's Day (now known as [[International Women's Day), 8 March 1927.]]
Eugene Bossilkov
Bulgarian Roman Catholic bishop, martyr and blessed (1900–1952)
Persecution of Falun Gong
Chinese persecution of the religious movement initiated by the Chinese Communist Party
Rolando Rivi
Italian Seminarian (1931–1945)
Bezbozhnik
anti-religious weekly newspaper "The ungodly"
persecution of Buddhists
persecution of Buddhists from non-Buddhists and other Buddhists
Zynoviy Kovalyk
Ukrainian priest and martyr (1903–1941)
Islam in the Soviet Union
overview of the country's Muslim demographic (1922–1991)
Thaddeus Ma Daqin
Chinese priest
1922 seizure of church valuables in Russia
return from rent-free lease of church valuables in Russia in 1922
persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union
Ad Apostolorum Principis
encyclical
Dominic Tang
Catholic archbishop (1908–1995)
Josef Hlouch
Czech bishop, professor, theologist and university educator (1902-1972)
communist purges in Serbia in 1944–1945
War crimes by the Yugoslav Partisan Movement
USSR anti-religious campaign
campaign by Nikita Khrushchev
Islamophobia in China
hostility or prejudice toward Muslims in China
Islam in the People's Socialist Republic of Albania
Religion in the People's Socialist Republic of Albania
USSR anti-religious campaign
USSR's Promotion of Atheism
Antireligious campaigns in China
State-sponsored campaigns against religion in the People's Republic of China
Bezbozhnik
Russian Marxist magazine (1925–1941)
Pietro Leoni
Italian Jesuit missionary (1909-1995)
Ateist
Ateist (; lit. «Atheist») was an antireligious monthly journal in Russian, which was published from 1922 to 1930 in the RSFSR and the USSR.
Tartu Credit Center Massacre
1919 massacre in Tartu, Estonia
Pope Pius XII and China
overview of the relationship between Pope Pius XII and China
Bezbozhnik u Stanka
antireligious magazine of the Moscow Committee of the AUCP(b)
persecution of Christians in the Eastern Bloc
overview of persecution of Christians in the Eastern Bloc