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{{Short description|Organisation in the Muslim republics}}
[[File:Fen-Em-Din.png|thumb|The cover of the anti-religious magazine in the Tatar language: فەن هەم دین - Fәn-Һәm-Din. 1929, No. 1]]
The '''Tatar Union of the Godless''' was an organisation in the Muslim republics during the purges by the [[Soviet Union]].  From 1928 to 1937, [[Burhan Mansurov]] served as the chairman of the organisation.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=uKr2O2GBDsQC&dq=Tatar+Union+of+the+Militant+Godless&pg=PA202 Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union: A Revolutionary Strategy for the Colonial World]''; Pgs. 92, 202</ref> The territory presently known as [[Tatarstan]] made demands for greater [[Tatars|Tatar]] autonomy within the USSR, which came into conflict with the advocates of a federal system grouped around [[Joseph Stalin]]. In 1928, the leaders of the Tatar Union of the Godless were arrested, stripped of [[Bolshevik|Bolshevik Party]] membership, and some were sentenced to [[death penalty|death]].<ref>* ''The Islamic Threat to the Soviet State'' by Aelexandre Bennigsen and Marie Boxup, 1984, Services Book Club, Lahore; Pg. 85</ref>
==See also==
* [[League of Militant Atheists]]
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