Due to real-life connections some of my follows on Mastodon are local libs who keep boosting stuff like this into my timeline.
This here is an account with a huge following for Fedi standards and apparently also posts on X. Not much profile info, no banner but very reactionary. Looks to be posting like an authority on all things Russia.
This chain about Stalin is 15 posts long, I have no idea what is going on there as I am definitely not too well in the loop with the Ukraine - Russia thing, but this seems to be both anti-communist and very russophobic. Pretty sus yet the libs eat this up.
Oh the Bolsheviks definitely did purge a lot of the clergy. Like I said, a good chunk of the clergy was either closely linked to the Tsars or were straight up nobility/aristocracy themselves, thus the revolution was going to target them. Point is that as with a lot of anti-communist rhetoric, the number is unrealistic and stinks of “pulled out of my arse.”
But, like a lot of the most fun right wing rhetoric; it aged into something completely based and I'm sad it wasn't true.