There's plausible elements of religion being an element in #8 The Soviet regime also did have a great amount of Nationalism built into it as well. The people w

There's plausible elements of religion being an element in #8 The Soviet regime also did have a great amount of Nationalism built into it as well. The people who are also in the "religion kills" camp will also argue (and not without good arguments) that you could call communism a religion. And of course for every single one of these genocides religion, class warfare and nationalism played a role (targetting of ethnic minorities under Pol Pot, state Shinto in Japan, Socialist and volk-Religion elements in Nazism, "communism as religion" so on). (Overall I'll tend to fall within the "nationalism kills more" camp.)