Religion
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- Religion
- Stalin shared Lenin's belief that there was no place for religion in a socialist society.
- In 1928, with the first 5YP, a new campaign against Churches began.
- Prohibition on Orthodox Churches and monasteries as well as the closure of synagogues and mosques.
- Clerics who refused to cooperate were arrested.
- Thousands in Moscow and Leningrad went into exile.
- Stalin needed everyone to focus on industrialising.
- Priests were publicly humiliated and forced to do demeaning tasks.
- March 1930, Pope Pius XI announced a special day of prayer against the persecutions.
- Stalin eventually decided to take a softer line.
- This didn't last long and by the late 1930s the Great Terror had begun.
- 800 CLERGY AND 400 PRIESTS WERE IMPRISONED
- IN 1940, 500 CHURCHES WERE OPEN. THIS IS 1% OF 1917.
- This didn't last long and by the late 1930s the Great Terror had begun.
- In 1946 Stalin required that all Christian denominations in the USSR come under the authority of the Orthodox Church.
- This ensured that religion did not become a political opposition.
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