Posted on 01/26/2017 1:58:38 AM PST by BlessedBeGod
Full Title: 20,000 Priests Were Executed during First Two Years after the October Revolution, Hundred of 60,000 Churches Still Worked in 1920
Moscow, January 25, Interfax -- 20,000 priests were executed in 1917-1918, chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society Sergey Stepashin said at the session of the organization committee for the events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution.
He also cited the information saying that there survived only four working hierarchs in the country in 1920, one hundred of 60,000 churches still worked.
Stressing that "nothing like this has ever happened in the world," Stepashin called the Russian revolution unique as it was directed against the Church.
"From all revolutions carried out in the world, it was the only one directed against the foundations of religion, against the Russian Orthodox Church, in fact against our culture. It hit the backbone of the Russian nation, interned the bloom of the nation -- several million people," he said.
Today, “the Bolsheviks” are 1-billion strong, and counting...
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Many descendants of the (((Bolsheviks))) are in the US, trying to do their best to bring about the ruin of our nation.
"When the Communist troops over-ran my diocese they were followed in short order by the propaganda corps – the civilian branch of the Red Forces – an organization...more fanatical, then the People's Army of Liberation itself. The entire population…was immediately organized into distinctive categories (and) forced to attend the seminar specified for his or her proper category and there (forced to submit) to the official Communist line. Now what...was the first lesson given to the indoctrinees? The first, the fundamental, lesson...was man's descent from the ape – Darwinism! Darwinism negates God, the human soul, the after-life. Into this vacuum Communism enters as the be-all and end-all of the intellectual slavery it has created. In the Red prison in which I was held, the slogan, 'Bring your mind over to us and all your troubles will end,' was hammered into the minds of the prisoners with brutal and numbing monotony. Nothing but a groveling holocaust of the human person can satiate the lust for dominance of Peking's Red Regime." (Article 12: The Quintessential Evolutionist, waragainstbeing.com)
Alain Brossat, one of the authors of the Black Book of Communism draws the following conclusions about the two regimes of Darwinian nihilism, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and the ties that bind them:
“The value of human life collapsed, and thinking in categories replaced ethical thought...In the discourse and practice of the Nazi exterminators, the animalization of Other...was closely linked to the ideology of race. It was conceived in the implacably hierarchical racial terms of "sub humans" and "supermen"...but in Moscow in 1937, what mattered...was the total animalization of the Other, so that a policy under which absolutely anything was possible could come into practice." (Black Book of Communism, p. 751)
As in England, here in America the god-men of scientism and evolution have replaced the God of Revelation with Darwin, thus with the animalization of Americans millions of mainly white, straight Conservatives and Christians have been ideologically linked to a subhuman 'race,' while millions of unborn humans have already been aborted, growing numbers of unwanted adults euthanized, and late-term unborn babies cruelly dismembered and their body parts sold to the highest bidder.
Our so-called "scientifically enlightened" age is an age of scientific fakery and evolutionary nihilism. Ecstatic with the voluptuous delight of narcissism, hate, power, death, and destruction which rolls humans into satanic depths, Progressive Leftists keep pushing society to the brink of social chaos and suicide.
Over 69 million murdered when Stalin finished up.
The Soviet anti-religious pogrom was not just directed at the Orthodox church.
When I went to Mongolia a few months ago, I saw a Buddhist monastery that was demolished by the Soviets in 1932. Out of 1,200 monks living at the monastery, the Soviets murdered 200, and the rest escaped. Almost all of the monasteries in Mongolia were destroyed, and many monks were murdered.
It is a sobering moment to stand looking at a wall of a destroyed building, realizing that the concentration of small holes in the middle of the wall means that a Buddhist monk, a man devoted to peace, was murdered at that exact spot.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Mongolians have been trying to rebuild their monasteries. Although it seems that Mongolians generally remember the USSR positively, those decades of communism left the country very poor. The contrast between, for example, South Korea, which has been allied with the US since 1950, and Mongolia, a former Soviet state, is stunning.
100% correct.
Similar to the French Revolution. I think a common perception of The Terror is that the French aristocracy went to the guillotine. They did. But the revolution was also very firmly targeted at the clergy. Many dead clerics, many destroyed churches.
Socialist revolutions are always anti-God. As others have pointed out, you can see it here in the US. The Left is at war with God. They oppose everlasting life and they promote a culture of death. That is their central cause.
In addition, the Chinese have destroyed virtually all Tibetan Buddhist temples, killed countless monks, and now have actors portraying monks for tourists.
This was fairly common knowledge once, but the lack of history teaching in our public schools and universities makes this once common knowledge sound like outlandish claims to our miseducated citizenry.
That is great that you went to Mongolia. I have always wanted to go there and was wondering if you could direct me to Genghis Khan’s tomb? :)
Indeed. And the Dalai Lama has been homeless ever since.
I saw his picture several times in Mongolia. He visits monasteries there every few years.
Mongolia is beautiful. I went in October, after tourist season, and it got quite cold. However, the sights there are amazing.
I don’t know about Chinggis Khan’s tomb, but I visited the city where he founded the seat of his empire in the year 1220, Karakorum. It snowed overnight while I was there, so I got a picture of the historic monastery layered with snow.
I had a driver and a guide for my trip there, arranged by a Mongolian tour company. It was a little pricey, but completely worth it. I highly recommend the experience.
Sounds like you had a great time. Due to my life long fascination with Genghis Khan, Mongolia is definitely on my bucket list. For such a wild place, it’s hard to believe that this was once the seat of the largest empire in history.
I have dreamed of going to Mongolia for decades, but going there was really my husband’s idea. When I had to go to another Asian country on business, he said, “Well, why don’t you go to Mongolia as long as you’re there?”
Indeed. I wasn’t sure that would be possible, but it was. And I had a great time.
The whole world can thank the third Mongolian empire for passports and a mail system. Centuries later, we used a similar mail system when we were colonizing the west.
Good point. I think the Mongols called their mail system the Yam, while we called ours’ the Pony Express.
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