Antipathy toward organized religion was central to the communist state, and there was great pressure to break the spirits of prisoners who relied on their faith. One group of female prisoners refused to wear numbered clothing due to the dictates of their religion, so the numbers were stamped directly onto their skin. For added humiliation they were forced to attend camp roll calls in the nude.[cccxlix] In 1930 another religious group regarded Soviet passports, money and the like as symbols of the Anti-Christ and refused to have anything to do with it. They were shipped to an island in the
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