Temple of the Resurrection of the Lord
The northern wall
St. Petersburg, Russia
Posted on 05/17/2016 11:22:01 AM PDT by annalex
Temple of the Resurrection of the Lord
The northern wall
St. Petersburg, Russia
Here, the priests, the deacons, the cemetery workers, and the temple flock, as well as other citizens were shot.
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Who could guess what your post is even about? It’s about as nebulous as Hillary’s brain.
Is it that hard to figure out?
The Bolsheviks executed people associated with the church by firing squad along the wall.
Makes one wonder about the shooters who missed high and left? Were they the next to go to the wall?
1) RC or RO?
2) Bolshies, or someone else pulling the triggers?
3) Should be ‘Firing Squad’ not ‘Fire Squad’
Either most of the victims were really short, or the shooters went for gut shots on most of them.
What you see is a well-preserved evidence of crimes against humanity in Soviet Russia.
When, where, who, why? The basic questions.
The executions were typically done by the Cheka, since then many times renamed.
Firing squad, right. Thank you.
I just found three pictures and posted them. Most such evidence was removed since then.
All I’m saying is that a little narrative would have gone a long way (especially for us non-Catholics :))
This has nothing to do with Catholics. The church in the picture is Orthodox, and, we can assume, so were most of the victims.
The Bolsheviks murdered approximately 20 million Christians before WW2 even started.
Almost certainly Russian Orthodox. The Communists associated the Church with the old regime and tried to obliterate it. They nearly succeeded, at least in numbers. We will never know the exact number of martyrs but it is likely that upwards of ten million Orthodox Christians were liquidated by the Communists. More than half under Stalin.
Today the Orthodox Church commemorates the Holy New Martyrs of Russia annually on January 25 (o.s.) / February 7 (n.s.).
By virtue of them being Christians, or on identity politics?
They're photos of a sacred place.
Specifically, where "Hillary's brain," as you spit it, proved to be not nebulous at all, but very specific, pulling all those triggers. You're looking at where people were murdered by the communist state for their faith in God.
Those photos should force your mouth shut in reverent silence. They obviously don't. You obviously don't know what that says about you. Others do.
None of what you mention is included in the original post. Furthermore, there is no way for me to look up any reference.
The Smolensk Cemetery, which surrounds this church, was the burial place for the elite before the revolution. So it probably received particularly harsh treatment.
But the Socialists thought any religion was the enemy of the state. They did not need much of an excuse to execute religious people.
I will have to go out of my way to see this church when I am in St Petersburg.
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