An Uncensored Account of Religion in Russia from Lenin to Khrushchev, Leopold L. Braun, 1958

the mor Tykhonian adherents several times asked movement. The emi the control of Patri In June of 1917 suppressed the office supervising all faith this had been an im sky's Provisional Go conscience. This w to discriminatory dox Church. Paris Ministry for Publi it was losing grou preliminary Chu p~ ter vor Petrograd. April of 1915 danger is NOW attention of the Brit fact that, if no e at once, the ci threatened.” Even admitting tl associated with cz repressive measur Russian Orthodox as well as against a of religious chara cter Bolsheviks were Square of Moscow stantaneous. In stri at stake in this frig that the Bolshevik reg avowed atheism i into tion can it be sa neutral even after d lec State. j Bolshevik At Lenin could n satisfaction of : his redoubtable lished, Moreo the full "ieod lution, was still admini land. On January 23, 1918 Decree on religious legis at the Russian Orthodox ( cripple all other faiths, inc depended on the Czar. Th cree actually placed religio wardly giving the impression congregation, for example, | juridical Personality. All f right of Property. Bible forbidden by law. The or public schools became Strangely and ironi a Commissariat of Ju ing of services an monies within an ing the 1918 Decreea immeasurably difficall of religion to anyone u a criminal offense, pun 122 of the Penal Ge de, To this day commen in which one is told remains a private from the truth, reg texts invoked in sw of the Communist ¢ tained in this quotation people.” “This dictum cornerstone of the en ing the problem of r churches and all typ forever looks upon 4 to defend the explo class,” (Kalendar ai In theory, "N zi f ] the person of Tykl prisoner of the Cheke prevented from freely needed in those trouble: Y dox Church. Regardless of to religion, history books f true religious freedom cam vent of Bolshevism! An if of this lying boast is the fact restored under the Provision shows. The Communists the time, since they were is that they were confroni more, at the death of ” actually prevented a Patriarch for the next eig of the German invasior reopening churches clo Kremlin startled its ow its volte-face, Sudden religion began to mar when Stalin was force facilitating divine x for almost a qua teresting phase W writing. i For the more than forty ing degrees of inte really ceased. In the year 1 Church, apparently” ual motives, launch was presented as The "progressive serving as a prot t (Kremlin-dominate ing “reforms” comp. traditions, this new. ten cheskaya Tserkov (Ref as tt could harm the frz N gogue or house GE F in the entire USSR tically made in a suffered most. Thi forced by Bolsh sor to Patriarch l Orthodoxy. The suk Church,” activated covert and overt co in this disruptions = Two other influe the following years organized divine alt el Secret Police and the Atheist