“The children belong to all of us,”
The Khmer Rouge had similar thoughts...
Seventy Years of Evil, Michael Johns, Policy Review, Fall 1987, p. 10
January 13, 1918 - A decree denies churches all property and legal rights, in effect outlawing their existence. Soon after, religious marriage is abolished and the family is declared obsolete. Family is criticized for preventing women from doing work useful to the state and declared irrelevant, since state will gradually take over childrearing. Zlata Lilina, director of public education in Petrograd, calls for “nationalization” of all children and their removal from the oppressive influences of their families, because children “like wax, are highly impressionable” and “good, true Communists” can be made our of them.