I would not say that most priests and nuns were killed by a large number of them were. My understanding is that if clergy and religious people stayed quiet and kept a low profile they were overlooked. After all, they could not kill everyone. I don’t have the stats.
Records that have been released in the last 5 years or so show that the ROC higher ups were working with the KGB to identify many of these people who were ‘sent away’ to forced labor camps where they were starved, frozen and/or worked to death. The was that those who survived would be re-educated.
The ones who were shot got off lucky.
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I would not say that most priests and nuns were killed but a large number of them were. My understanding is that if clergy and religious people stayed quiet and kept a low profile they were overlooked. After all, they could not kill everyone. I don’t have the stats.
Records that have been released in the last 5 years or so show that the ROC higher ups were working with the KGB to identify many of these people who were ‘sent away’ to forced labor camps where they were starved, frozen and/or worked to death. The goal was that those who survived would be re-educated.
The ones who were shot got off lucky.