Just remember the Russian Orthodox Church sided with the atheist Communists. The church hierarchy worked closely with the KGB to identify ‘dissidents’, even some of their own priests and worshipers, to the gulags of the north to be worked and starved to death.
This would not surprise me.
Hi Lorianne, I see you say the Russian Orthodox Church sided with the communists.
Did you know that the slaughter of Russian Orthodox Christians was perhaps the biggest martyrdom in the entire history of Christianity, done at the hands of the communists? According to documents over 100,000 Clergy alone were shot dead.
Stalin pounded the table screaming that more must be done to crush the church.
Nearly all Bishops were killed, most priests monks and nuns were killed. A majority of Churches were destroyed.
So might there be some missing context in your statement?