While I’m in favor of exterminating Bolsheviks, during the Twenties the Bolsheviks had the guns, and the Christians didn’t. A result of losing the Russian Civil War, don’t you know.
“A result of losing the Russian Civil War, don’t you know.”
That’s true; it wasn’t like they didn’t try. Unfortunately so many good Orthodox men had already died in WWI, and what remained after the civil war was a dispirited, disillusioned group with religious leaders who made a deal with the Devil.