All religion needs to be banned.

Atheism wasn't the motivation for killing them though. Maintaining autocracy was.

Terrorism has no religion. Period.

Actually it was to force rapid industrialisation of Russia, with the majority of their population at the time being in agriculture - thus had to be converted or exterminated. Also 'The League of Militant Atheists' was set up in Stalin's Russia, who would terrorise and kill any Russian who openly practised religion (a lot of people) no doubt adding to the total 15 mil dead

What do you mean 'actually'. The 15 million figure is people executed or worked to death in prison camps (i.e. criminals and political prisoners - people who threatened the autocracy). If you want to force industrialisation you don't actively murder your workforce. Don't forget that Stalin still needed the bloated agricultural sector, he just collectivised it. And whilst the League were savages (you exaggerate when you say they killed any Russian openly practising religion) and their victims are included in the figure (the political threat posed by the Church made its adherents political enemies) in a world without religion they would not have been killed (obviously). So that's an incredibly strange point to make. Similarly in a pluralist Russia they wouldn't have been killed.

nope, that 15 million figure is solely related to Stalin's push for collectivisation and industrialisation. No doubt more were killed in prison/work camps. Those he killed were the farmers that didn't want their land taken, or who didn't want to go and work in factories, the NKVD death squads saw to that. and that an equally strange counter point. Thats like saying 'if jews didn't exist, the Holocaust wouldn't have happened' ? and of course, i'm just alluding to the point that atheism can drive murder and destruction just like religion can. I think the main point is though that neither religion nor atheism actually cause murder/destruction etc. Humans do. And anything can be latched onto by the murderers to justify the atrocious acts they have committed. Whether it be religion/atheism/politics etc...

What do you mean 'actually'. The 15 million figure is people executed or worked to death in prison camps (i.e. criminals and political prisoners - people who threatened the autocracy). If you want to force industrialisation you don't actively murder your workforce. Don't forget that Stalin still needed the bloated agricultural sector, he just collectivised it. And whilst the League were savages (you exaggerate when you say they killed any Russian openly practising religion) and their victims are included in the figure (the political threat posed by the Church made its adherents political enemies) in a world without religion they would not have been killed (obviously). So that's an incredibly strange point to make. Similarly in a pluralist Russia they wouldn't have been killed.

The 15 million figure is wrong . Stalin killed around 40 million in total not to shabby
http://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-kill-1111789