[A. Pole]

Persecution and martyrdom of Christians under 20th century totalitarianism - mainly of Russian Orthodox Christians under Bolshevism - is by far the greatest crime in all of recorded history. It is several times greater than the Holocaust in terms of innocent lives brutally destroyed. It has killed more Christians in a few decades than all other causes put together in all ages, with Islam a distant second as the cause of their death and suffering. And yet it still remains a largely unknown, often minimized, or scandalously glossed over crime.

[GOP Poet]

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[MarMema]

Thank you for this post.

[sasportas]

there have been many more Christian martyrs in the 20th century - over 45 million - than in all of the preceding 19 centuries of Christianity. Of that number, some 32 million were killed by "atheists"

Judging by the many threads on FR by atheists, the atheists here try to distance themselves from the martyrdom of Christians by their fellow atheists. This tells the tale.

[anna-seraphima]

The angels of God are fulfilling the prophecy of St. Seraphim of Sarov that angels would scarcely be able to receive the souls of the multitudes killed for Christ.