[RussianBoor]

how do you view the KILLING of all those Ukrainian Catholic priests and religious under Stalin...UKRAINIAN CATHOLICS were NOT Russian Orthodox until they were FORCED to abandon their Eastern Catholic communion with the Pope and BECOME Russian Orthodox or die.

Well, talking about nonsense... Communists forcing people to become Christians... I guess you've just won a top prize for ignorance. Congrats!

[dangus]

Forcing people to leave their own church to join the official state-sanctioned, KGB-dominated Church is what you call "forcing them to become Christian"? Nice attitude.

The truth is that the state propped up a state-controlled Patriarch and gave all those who would come under his authority security, while it murdered all others.

[Thorin]

>>>>>Well, talking about nonsense... Communists forcing people to become Christians... I guess you've just won a top prize for ignorance. Congrats!

As unbelievable as this sounds, it is true. When the Soviets conquered the Western Ukraine (which had been part of Poland or Czechoslovakia before WW II), they held a synod in which some clergy renounced their union with Rome, and then persecuted all those who ramained faithful to Rome. The churches of the Eastern Catholics were handed over to the Eastern Orthodox churches, which were implicit in the persecution.