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For those not in the know, the Soviet Union was an officially atheist empire and explicitly anti religious, foremost anti christian. I don't know if the poster
by carlosjobim 2y ago
For those not in the know, the Soviet Union was an officially atheist empire and explicitly anti religious, foremost anti christian. I don't know if the poster above me is denying this or if he/she considers it general knowledge which needn't be mentioned.
- ripe 2y agoIn practice, starting with Stalin the party mostly let the church continue unmolested. "The Great Patriotic War changed Joseph Stalin’s position on the Orthodox Church. In 1943, after Stalin met with loyal Metropolitans, the government let them choose a new Patriarch, with government support and funding, and permitted believers to celebrate Easter, Christmas and other holidays. Stalin legalized Orthodoxy once again." https://www.rbth.com/history/329361-russian-orthodox-church-ussr-communism https://www.rbth.com/history/329361-russian-orthodox-church-...
- carlosjobim 2y ago"Unmolested" during the war and until Stalin's death. After that, Khrushchev closed churches and started the anti christian campaigning again. The mass murder of "state enemies" mostly ended with Stalin's death, but the church and Christians were still molested, even though they weren't tortured to death.
- PittleyDunkin 2y agoTreatment of christians and christianity varied widely over the lifetime of the soviet union. That the soviet union was "atheist" is an incorrect reduction of the situation (albeit one reinforced by the propaganda both in the soviet union and especially in the US)