[1rudeboy]

But your must recognize that a good number of the citizens of the captive nations praticed religion in opposition to their respective atheist regimes. To suggest that countries such as Poland or Lithuania (the first to go) did not see overt expression of Catholicism as the means toward revolution is simply not true. These people sang religious hymns and brought down the beast.

[Notwithstanding]

the hill of crosses comes to mind