The Catholic Church was "legal" - Islam was "legal, etc. Stalin came down hard on those Orthodox churches you mentioned because the were centered around a Nationalist and sepratist movement. He did not do it in favor of Orthodoxy. Even those churches you mentioned were later re-instated though they were less tolerated. In terms of body bags/martyrs the Orthodox Ukranians/Russians of the Moscow patriarchy outnumbered all faiths, etc. So you gain no special place for your churches by mentioning that Societ hit them - they hit all and then let up and then hit again, etc.
Can you be any more ignorant? The Ukrainian Catholic Church was the largest illegal church in the world up until 1989.
I did not write about Stalin. And you still do not address the supportive role of the partriarch of Moscow(Aleksei) in the persecution of other Eastern Churches.
It is a fact that the Russian Orthodox Church was the recipient of confiscated churches & properties, so it begs the question.............
Why do the Ukrainian Orthodox & Catholic Churches, to this day, have to butt heads with the Russian Orthodox Church to have their properties respectfully return to them? It would have been the honorable thing to do but it seems denominational vanity gets precedence over morality.