Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.
Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
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It is already clear after twenty years of socialism in Russia that if you do not provide your society with a new religion it will gradually revert to the old one.