His struggle against godlessness, he admitted, had really been a campaign against the Soviet state, and he was sorry for what he had done.

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At a time when people were commonly typed by their religious beliefs and when the charge of godlessness was a serious one, the accusation of placing yourself above the Creator was not to be shrugged off lightly.

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