With Putin talking about the orthodox church being holy and using to justify some conservative bullshit, all I can remember was the bolsheviks going around the country proudly declaring that cities were now "officially godless" and redistributing the church's gold amongst the people and using it to pay for electrification projects.

  • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    This is a very correct interpretation. Faith in general was kept hidden and private. These are mostly not new converts, but people more openly talking about it. If the USSR had survived a few more generations probably religion would have genuinely fallen off...