| We get a lot of questions about what
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| | between the Church and the state started
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| happened to the Russian Church after the
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| | to deteriorate again. Until Perestroika,
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| revolution of 1917 and what religious
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| | public expression of religious beliefs -
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| life was like during the Communist regime
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| | Christian or otherwise - was frowned
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| in Russia.As we know, in 1914 Russia had
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| | upon; known churchgoers were deprived of
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| 55 173 Russian Orthodox churches and 29
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| | some social rights, they could not become
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| 593 chapels, 112 629 priests and deacons,
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| | members of the Communist Party, which in
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| 550 monasteries and 475 nunneries with a
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| | turn, severely limited their career
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| total of 95 259 inhabitants.As the
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| | opportunities and many lost their jobs
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| twentieth century approached, Russia
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| | and any privileges. All Soviet university
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| could boast the largest single national
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| | students were required to take courses in
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| Church in the world.Although freedom of
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| | so-called "Scientific Atheism".Cathedral
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| religious expression was formally
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| | of Christ the Savior was blown up in 1931
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| declared by one of the first decrees of
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| | and turned into a heated open-air pool.
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| the revolutionary government in January
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| | Restoration was started in 1995.Some
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| 1918, both the Church and its followers
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| | priests of the Russian Orthodox Church,
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| were heavily persecuted and deeply
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| | as well as other churches in the Soviet
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| disadvantaged. Prior to the Russian
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| | Union were secretly employed by the KGB
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| Revolution, there were some 54 000
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| | for the government to discover who was a
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| functioning parishes and over 150
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| | Church member. Despite the dangers, large
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| bishops. There were soon bloody and cruel
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| | numbers of people remained openly or
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| killings of bishops and priests, and
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| | secretly religious. In 1987 in the
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| massacres of believers during the Red
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| | Russian Federation between 40% and 50% of
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| Terror and the following years of
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| | newborn babies were baptized, and over
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| repressions were shocking. These
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| | 60% of all the deceased received
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| persecutions were even greater than the
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| | Christian funeral services.A pivotal
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| persecutions of the Ancient Christian
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| | moment in the history of the Russian
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| Church both in the number of holy martyrs
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| | Orthodox Church came in 1988 - the
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| and the cruelty and ingenuity of the
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| | millennium of the Baptism of Russia. It
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| persecutors.Many religious hierarchs fled
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| | appears now that the government had
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| Russia during the revolution and the
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| | realized the fruitlessness of its efforts
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| civil war that followed. They contributed
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| | in its war against religion and instead
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| to the spread of the Orthodox Church in
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| | tried to use religion to gain the support
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| many countries. However, some hierarchs
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| | of the people.Throughout the summer of
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| even formed their own organization that
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| | 1988, major government-supported
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| became known as the Russian Orthodox
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| | celebrations took place in Moscow and
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| Church Outside of Russia. They split away
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| | other cities and many churches and some
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| from the Russian Church. During the
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| | monasteries were reopened. An implicit
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| 1920-30s, most church buildings were
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| | ban against religious propaganda on state
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| blown up, burned or converted into
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| | TV was finally lifted. For the first time
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| secular buildings; over 50 thousand
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| | in the history of the Soviet Union,
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| priests were either executed or sent to
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| | people could use their TVs to see live
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| labor camps.
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| | transmissions of services from central
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| By 1939, there were less than 100
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| | churches.Today, the Russian Orthodox
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| functioning parishes and only four
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| | Church is the largest of the Eastern
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| bishops.During World War II, the
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| | Orthodox churches in the world. Over 90%
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| religious persecution in Soviet Union
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| | of ethnic Russians identify themselves as
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| became less pronounced, in part due to
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| | Russian Orthodox. The number of people
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| cooperation of the Church with the state
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| | regularly attending church services is
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| on national defense issues. Years 1944-45
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| | considerably lower, but growing every
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| saw the reopening of the Moscow
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| | year. The Church has over 23,000
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| Theological Academy and Seminary that had
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| | parishes, 154 bishops, 635 monasteries,
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| been closed since 1918. After the death
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| | and 102 clerical schools.
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| of Joseph Stalin in 1953, relations
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