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@BalazsOrban_HU What a shame

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4 days ago

It began almost at once. The tsar had scarcely fallen before the new masters of Russia turned their guns upon the old faith. In the winter of 1918, when the snows lay high against the walls of monasteries older than the Romanovs themselves, squads of young Bolsheviks — factory workers in leather jackets, rifles slung casually over their shoulders — marched through cloisters as though kicking in the doors of a conquered world. What startled foreign observers was not merely the destruction but the speed of it. In just the first five years of Bolshevik rule, between 12,000 and 20,000 priests, monks, and nuns were murdered, along with tens of thousands of ordinary believers who refused to abandon their faith. Three centuries of Roman persecution had killed far fewer. The killing of clergy became so common that even hardened soldiers grew uneasy. In Petrograd, a young commissar named Yakov Peters ordered the execution of forty-eight priests in a single night, later boasting that “the old Russia dies tonight.” Yet the men he killed had not resisted. Many, like Archbishop Andronik of Perm, merely asked to bless their flock one last time. Peters refused. Andronik raised his hands anyway, tracing a final blessing in the dim lamplight. A soldier struck him with a rifle butt, but the gesture had been made. An American correspondent who later interviewed witnesses wrote, “It was faith confronting ideology, and faith died standing up.” What the Bolsheviks never understood was how deeply the old religion lived in the Russian mind. They believed that if they shot enough priests, tore down enough icons, and turned enough churches into warehouses, the people would abandon the past like an outgrown coat. Instead, they created martyrs — not the serene figures of Roman mosaics, but men with frost in their beards and women clutching their children as they faced the rifles. In 1922, when Lenin ordered the seizure of all church valuables, peasants in the town of Shuya formed a human chain around their wooden church. Troops opened fire. “We died for a church made of pine,” one survivor said, “but to us it was Jerusalem.” In the end, the tragedy of the early Soviet years is not only counted in bodies — though they were many — but in the deliberate attempt to crush the spiritual inheritance of a people. The Romans persecuted Christians out of fear; the Bolsheviks persecuted them out of doctrine. Yet history keeps its own ledger. The Soviet Empire, which promised a world without God, is gone. But in the ruins of its gulags stand crosses once again, raised by the grandchildren of those who died — by the tens of thousands — for the faith their killers could not extinguish. © Pivotal Historical Moments Fan #archaeohistories

histories_arch's tweet photo. It began almost at once. The tsar had scarcely fallen before the new masters of Russia turned their guns upon the old faith. In the winter of 1918, when the snows lay high against the walls of monasteries older than the Romanovs themselves, squads of young Bolsheviks — factory workers in leather jackets, rifles slung casually over their shoulders — marched through cloisters as though kicking in the doors of a conquered world. What startled foreign observers was not merely the destruction but the speed of it. In just the first five years of Bolshevik rule, between 12,000 and 20,000 priests, monks, and nuns were murdered, along with tens of thousands of ordinary believers who refused to abandon their faith. Three centuries of Roman persecution had killed far fewer.

The killing of clergy became so common that even hardened soldiers grew uneasy. In Petrograd, a young commissar named Yakov Peters ordered the execution of forty-eight priests in a single night, later boasting that “the old Russia dies tonight.” Yet the men he killed had not resisted. Many, like Archbishop Andronik of Perm, merely asked to bless their flock one last time. Peters refused. Andronik raised his hands anyway, tracing a final blessing in the dim lamplight. A soldier struck him with a rifle butt, but the gesture had been made. An American correspondent who later interviewed witnesses wrote, “It was faith confronting ideology, and faith died standing up.”

What the Bolsheviks never understood was how deeply the old religion lived in the Russian mind. They believed that if they shot enough priests, tore down enough icons, and turned enough churches into warehouses, the people would abandon the past like an outgrown coat. Instead, they created martyrs — not the serene figures of Roman mosaics, but men with frost in their beards and women clutching their children as they faced the rifles. In 1922, when Lenin ordered the seizure of all church valuables, peasants in the town of Shuya formed a human chain around their wooden church. Troops opened fire. “We died for a church made of pine,” one survivor said, “but to us it was Jerusalem.”

In the end, the tragedy of the early Soviet years is not only counted in bodies — though they were many — but in the deliberate attempt to crush the spiritual inheritance of a people. The Romans persecuted Christians out of fear; the Bolsheviks persecuted them out of doctrine. Yet history keeps its own ledger. The Soviet Empire, which promised a world without God, is gone. But in the ruins of its gulags stand crosses once again, raised by the grandchildren of those who died — by the tens of thousands — for the faith their killers could not extinguish.

© Pivotal Historical Moments Fan

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geomello @Geomilo2

12 days ago

@islamibozkurt not to many people are stupid enough to believe the false history this guy is spewing wonder how much money he got from islam

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12 days ago

@PROMAKOS_ such false historical analysis what a couple of fools

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12 days ago

@retardedgoy1 he is either a luer or a fool

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14 days ago

@r0ck3t23 i want paved roads and civilized life i’m willing to pay taxes for it via taxes but when the money disappears and billions are stolen and there is no accountability and no retribution i must scratch my head and wonder why

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15 days ago

@thedoctor1611 What a misguided individual

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15 days ago

@JemappelleEve Who would trust your soul with a feeble minded guy like this

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15 days ago

@JemappelleEve You obviously know nothing

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15 days ago

@MilenaB24366673 God in prayer is the reason is the answer. turn away from Godless politics

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16 days ago

@GioBruno1600 Being an idiot

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16 days ago

@sanderson1611 What appears to be a fool or misguided urban American who has no idea of the depth of the orthodox faith and the commitment of Greeks to their faith , while he bloviates about baptists

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18 days ago

@Verica1879794 No

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19 days ago

@peravojchan @milovan55 By this time no doubt exists in informed people’s minds that Serbia was the victim so much evidence so many confessions ,who are you kidding to think informed people can pour through the evidence and not see the false truth ,the terrible atrocities and the fake atrocities.

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