“Our century is more packed with such idols than any other since the time of Mahomet. Our forefathers revered prophets, tsars, generals, thinkers; Peter, Napoleon, Bismarck, Garibaldi, Rousseau, Nietz-sche. ...

But they saw them as heroes, lawgivers, savants, not as absolute geniuses equal to God, not as leaders of all mankind, not as the initiators of new "worldwide historical" epochs. Yet Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong became precisely such idols. Their high priests, servants and servantesses attributed supernatural virtues to them, served them bloody human sacrifices, tried to impose their cannibalistic creeds on all continents. To this end they composed mythical genealogies, founded posthumous cults of imaginary prede-cessors-caesars, emperors, heroes, Marx, Engels, Lenin.”