HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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It was spreading atheistic ideas
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It was Stalin’s chosen religion
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It tortured artists and writers
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it had supported the czar and Russian monarchy
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thus the current relationship between the Russian Imperial House and the Russian Orthodox Church is close, warm, mutually supportive, and rooted in history and a spirit of Orthodox piety that has characterized the Russian monarchy for centuries.
Detailed explanation-2: -Russian revolution After a few months of political turmoil, the Bolsheviks took power in October 1917 and declared a separation of church and state. The government seized all church lands. Thus the Russian Orthodox Church found itself without official state backing for the first time in its history.
Detailed explanation-3: -From 1928 until World War II, when some restrictions were relaxed, the totalitarian dictator shuttered churches, synagogues and mosques and ordered the killing and imprisonment of thousands of religious leaders in an effort to eliminate even the concept of God.
Detailed explanation-4: -In an effort to centralize every aspect of Soviet life, Stalin outlawed Byzantine-rite Ukrainian Catholics, ordering them to “unite” under the umbrella of the Russian Orthodox Church. He severed the Ukrainian church’s 350-year-old tie with the Vatican. More than 2, 500 priests were arrested.