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What kind of stupidity are you preaching now
Soviet Socialists literally destroyed Russian Christianity. Tortured priests and nuns etc, mass murdered them as if the KGB were Islamic Mullahs or something
And the church certainly hasn't recovered from that. What you are seeing in Russia is the musty remnant of authoritarian socialism, your own disease
Eastern Orthodox Christianity is very much alive in Russia.
Orthodox Christianity (Russian: Православие Pravoslavije), is Russia’s traditional and largest religion, deemed part of Russia‘s “historical heritage” constitutionally.
Like everywhere else, they are not religious
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But for most Russians, the return to religion did not correspond with a return to church. Across all three waves of ISSP data, no more than about one-in-ten Russians said they attend religious services at least once a month. The share of regular attenders (monthly or more often) was 2% in 1991, 9% in 1998 and 7% in 2008. This suggests that although many more Russians now freely identify with the Orthodox Church or other religious groups, they may not be much more religiously observant than they were in the recent past, at least in terms of attendance at religious services.
Christianity is all but dead
Russia is no longer a socialist paradise. It is a kleptocracy. You, nor anyone of us, knows whether the Orthodox Church is getting a cut of the pie in the back room. Surveys of the populace are useless in an authoritarian regime.
From Wikipedia, and a guy who looks kind of like a pirate
Soviet tactics[edit]
The tactics varied over the years and became more moderate or more harsh at different times. Among common tactics included confiscating church property, ridiculing religion, harassing believers, and propagating atheism in the schools. Actions toward particular religions, however, were determined by State interests, and most organized religions were never outlawed.
Some actions against Orthodox priests and believers along with execution included torture, being sent to prison camps, labour camps or mental hospitals.[25][26][27][28] Many Orthodox (along with peoples of other faiths) were also subjected to psychological punishment or torture and mind control experimentation in order to force them to give up their religious convictions (see Punitive psychiatry in the Soviet Union).[26][27][29] During the first five years of Soviet power, the Bolsheviks executed 28 Russian Orthodox bishops and over 1,200 Russian Orthodox priests. Many others were imprisoned or exiled.[2]
In the Soviet Union, in addition to the methodical closing and destruction of churches, the charitable and social work formerly done by ecclesiastical authorities was taken over by the state. As with all private property, Church owned property was confiscated into public use. The few places of worship left to the Church were legally viewed as state property which the government permitted the church to use.
Protestant Christians in the USSR (Baptists, Pentecostals, Adventists etc.) in the period after the Second world war were compulsively sent to mental hospitals, or endured trials and imprisonment (often for refusal to enter military service). Some were even compulsively deprived of parental rights.[30]
Yeah, great, Bosco. But we are no longer dealing with the Soviet Union. Not since 1989. Try to keep up.
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