It was on this date, November 16, 1933, that the United States recognized the Soviet Union when President Roosevelt established diplomatic relations with the USSR — sixteen years after the Russian Revolution. The Soviet Union, so the popular story goes, was the first state to have as an ideological objective the elimination of religion. This is circumstantially true, but a complete story would show that the Soviet state was set up to be a quasi-religion itself.

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Originally published October 2003 by Ronald Bruce Meyer.