Orthodoxy vs Communism - There Can Be Only One
Some say that the Soviet Union fought religions for 70 years, but in the end created a new one. The one that is still believed in to this day. How and why did the Soviet Union try to destroy one of the pillars of Russian society in the form of Orthodoxy? Why was Soviet devotion to Stalin and Lenin so similar to Orthodoxy? And why didn't the Soviet government manage to deal with its worst enemy in 70 years?
00:00 - Why Soviets needed religions gone
02:11 - First Years of Bolshevism
06:18 - Anti-religion movements after Lenin's death
07:41 - "The Great Turn"
10:05 - Religion during WW2
12:53 - Orthodoxy in USSR after Stalin
16:13 - How religion won in the end
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