Religion in the Soviet Union. Part 1
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- Religion and life in the Soviet Union. Realities of life of believers in the USSR.
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Very good. I came across this while searching for a documentary that was broadcast on PBS I believe sometime in the 1980s about Religion in Russia. It was called A Candle in the Wind. If you do a search, you usually just get the Elton John music referrals. But I'm still trying.
Mr Sergie,
Greetings from Augusta, Georgia, USA. My name is Wayne. I'm a paralyzed Disabled Veteran of the United States Military. First and foremost I'm so glad that Russia 🇷🇺 the United States are not enemies anymore. And I sincerely hope that life for the Russian people is much better now. Because I've noticed that Russian and Chinese people, life has been very difficult for them most of the history of both. Both suffered greatly first by the Mongol Khans, then later by its own governments. I may be mistaken but to me Communism is nothing more than State Sponsored Feudalism, which both the Russian and Chinese people have a history of. Thank goodness for the Magna Carta because this was the start of the development of democracy in the modern world. Now, as a paralyzed person from my chest down, my concern is about the Russian military. Do they get assistance from the Russian government if they need it like the USA? We know that China even in 2021 that they are malnourished. They can barely fit in a uniform. There will be no end in Communism in China anytime soon. Anyway, my life may be a bit difficult but compared to the Russian Veterans my life is really good. So I try not to complain so much. Veterans should be respected by its people.
Excellent audio, great improvement. Very interesting topic, similar to what happened in China.
Religion and Capitalism go hand in hand
Wow, à one year old comment from laowhy86, not even pinned, no reply from Ushanka besides a heart, and just 8 likes. Don't you guys know who he is?
@@piperpruiksma2321 If you look at data, the capitalist countries are becoming less religious, and arguably have done a better job at removing religion from the people than the USSR
Please check out this man's channel about China. You will not regret it.
A friend of mine grew up in Communist Poland. She told me that religion was tolerated, but somewhat frowned upon by the authorities. The Catholic Churches actually provided a place where people could meet up and discuss matters that might have been considered subversive by the State! You wouldn't normally think of people going to church in order to rebel, but that is what ended up happening!
Something like that happened in 1920's Mexico, Elias Calles wanted to emulate the October revolution there. it sparked the cristero war.
But Mexican Government put a stop at a sudden communist uprising preventing Mexico for being a Communist Nation next to the U.S. Then our country will have an massive immigration problem by 1930 to a point the new system by U.S. Government to suppress a heavy flow of Mexican Immigrants.
@@jacobtennyson9213 Are you talking about tletolco massacre? And immigration from Mexico was heavier than any other latin American country, including Cuba.
Many things and jokes you said in video soud familiar. My grandmother secretly baptized my mother and my uncle. Grandpa was a military personnel and ww2 veteran. He didn't know that thing untill he retired.
But we in communist Yugoslavia weren't so cruel to destroy churches, or turn them into a clubs.
KikirikiSemenke357 We from Yugoslavia took free days for religion hollidays!!!!! :))))
@@ivam342 Yes! I'm from a Catholic/Jewish family. In the Pioniri our holiday uniforms the Bosnian kids wore red Muslim caps with it, I had a red yarmulke. We had to go to other religious services to build Bratstvo i Jedinstvo. When I got sent to the USSR for school it was a HUGE shock when people told me to take off the red kippeh, how dare I! I was very shocked to see churches & synagogues being used for Dom Kulturi or cinemas.
We too in Communist Ethiopia,
But the Government was still determined to systematically erase religion by converting some churches into museums.
They also tried to control the Orthodox Church through the Patriarch as the Soviet Union did and had communist gatherings on Sunday's to make the people stop going to church.
That is so sad about the destruction of churches. I imagine there were some real cultural and artistic treasures going back centuries, just carelessly erased.
The story about the collective farm chief having an excuse for making the sign of the cross sounds like a joke; I've heard a variant on it. There's also a common saying about the directions which the hands are supposed to go: "Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch."
Wow -- very informative video! I was agnostic through high school. The only thing (at the time) that I admired about the Soviet Union was the government's attempt to control religion. However, I eventually converted to Christianity. It made me realize that it is better to err on the side of liberty than to let the politicians err on our behalf.
I waited a while for this but I did knew eventually it will come to Religion in the Soviet Union
Here in Kirkkonummi, where I live, (Finland) a big part of the territory was "occupied" by the S.U. (Porkkala, 1944-1956). It was kinda leaseagreement in the peace agreement between Finland and USSR... The church was used as a club and later as a horsestable during those 12 years....
Very interesting, thank you. I am surprised that area wasn't annexed into the USSR like Karelia.
Decades of oppressive atheistic rule could not stamp out the Church. Praise Christ.
I have been enjoying your informative content, and I have a few suggestions for possibly making it even more informative and enjoyable;
1. Please consider providing some on screen translations of the cyrryllic written content, especially soviet propagand posters.
2. I would be very interested in hearing more regarding your take on current events in Ukraine.
3. You might also consider aquiring genuine vintage soviet era memorobilia (posters, pins, statuettes etc) from your sources back home and selling it at a substantial markup as merchandise for your channel.
" 2) At the end of 1917, Lenin with the Bolsheviks, takes power in Russia. This government is very different from all previous ones due to fierce attack on any religion and any god! Did God's Word predict that such a thing will happen? In Daniel's book the following words are written: " The king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt himself and magnify himself above every god; and against the God of gods he will speak astonishing things. And he will prove successful until the denunciation comes to a finish; because what is determined must take place. He will show no regard for the God of his fathers; nor will he show regard for the desire of women or for any other god, but he will magnify himself over everyone. But instead he will give glory to the god of fortresses; to a god that his fathers did not know he will give glory by means of gold and silver and precious stones and desirable things. " (11 : 36-38) None of the Soviet dictators had a royal title, and all were "comrades". However, because of Comrade Lenin, a great imperial city of Petrograd became Leningrad, Stalin was called "shining sun", and none of them were elected by the people, and they all had so much power that many kings from previous times would envy them! Did the communist absolutistic kings really "exalt themselves above every god"? Even before he came to power Comrade Lenin wrote that " all worship of a divinity is necrophily " and " Just because any religious idea, any idea of any god at all, any flirtation even with a god, is the most inexpressible foulness, particularly tolerantly (and often even favourably) accepted by the democratic bourgeoisie - for that very reason it is the most dangerous foulness, the most shameful “infection”. " 4 As soon as he seized power, Lenin did his best to get rid of " infection ". On the other hand, photos of himself and his successors images were hanging like icons in public buildings and lavish parades were held in their honor! The death of the Soviet leader was more than national mourning. The joy was forbidden, factories stood still, trains were stopped on the tracks, the songs were written in their honor, and people in severe cold for hours were waiting for their turn to see the deceased for the last time. Because of all this, I have no doubt that necrophilia, when associated with the Red dynasty, was not a bad thing! Thus, the communist King really " exalted himself above every god ", so it is logical that the God of gods is not likeable to him! During the 1920s in the USSR magazine "The Godless" was circulating, which content was fully in line with the title. In the first issue (If I'm wrong let someone correct me) on the front page JEHOVAH was pictured as one-eyed rabbi in dog's position on a leash, led by a rich man! In the issue of 1926 (?) we see, again, Jehovah as the one-eyed man with a Jewish banker who sits in his lap. Below the drawing reads: " I am Jehovah, the oldest of the gods and I understand things better than all of these nurslings. I am aloof, like the dollar. I will not stand for you talking nonsense about peace and love like my son, Christ. I am occupied exclusively with my people, where everyone does his own thing: the capitalists and money lenders get richer, and workers labor for them. A good Jew will always be rich if he listens to my practical advice. Workers, be devout Jews and work for the capitalists with all your might. If you even think about turning to the goys (unbelievers), the Christians, the Muslims, and other workers, and shamelessly snatching from the hands of my honorable capitalist children the smallest pieces of gold, then I will condemn you, and in the next world I will torture you and torture you. " People always had something against the true God. In Scripture we find those who have underestimated the power of Jehovah, some who were saying that God is not interested in humans (sorts of deists?), others who were rather shy atheists, the third ones who were criticizing Jehovah that he is overly permissive, fourth who thought he is too strict, the fifth even thought they are more righteous than him, but I have never found a case where Jehovah is compared to a dog, nor is he anywhere portrayed as the ultimate evil and vengeful monster! (Exodus 5: 2; 1Kings 20: 23-28 ; Ezek 9: 9; Psalm 14: 1; Jonah 3: 5-4: 3; Isaiah 28: 10,13; Matthew 25:24; Jer 31:29; Ezek 33:17; Malachi 2:17) Is it not " astonishing " that the government blasphemed so boldly Christ's father in the country where great majority worshiped him!? "
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I always wondered about religion in the Soviet Union, were there christians in positions of power in the later years of the soviet union? I know that in the 70s and 80s the soviet union became less communistic and allowed many more freedoms such as more religous freedom.
Were there people who wanted to reform the soviet union to be more pro religion? I think Gorbatsjov was very positive about Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ was very communist. He preached helping the poor.
Many leaders and adults who ran the soviet union later were raised orthodox Christians. That might be a factor on why they went more lenient on religion.
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He talked about helping them, not stealing from others to help them.
Well I know of some religious Soviet Elite Politicians in the Stalin era who were untouched because they followed the Stalinist line
A minor correction. Orthodox Christians do touch the right shoulder and then the left one. But this doesn't influence the plot of the joke, so that's OK.
I have a friend who was one of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Soviet Union during the 1980s who was arrested, tried, and sentenced to a labor camp in 1984 for teaching his children his religion. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Jehovah's Witnesses were given legal recognition and most all of the older ones who were persecuted by the government in the Soviet Union were given veteran status and received benefits from the government. Now here we are today, and again Jehovah's Witnesses are banned and being arrested in the Russian Federation starting in 2017.
Given their rather aggressive prostalization techniques especially in the 1990s this is no surprise because of the general society absolutely hating these sectarians.
Sad photo @11:14 . People were homeless and starving yet the government was demolishing big, beautiful, warm buildings just to ruin religion.
An other great show Comrade Sergie!
Wait, I thought the Orthodox sign of the cross was right-left, opposite of the Catholic version.
As a Non Denominational Christian, this topic really interests me. Also, were you able to leave the USSR as a citizen?
USHANKA SHOW thanks for the heads up! I will watch that right now!
This sounds similar to how the Marxists in China treat religion.
You can attend a "state approved" church, which of course can only teach state-approved doctrines. "House Christians", Uyghurs and other non-state approved religions are persecuted. Despite this, I have spoken with Chinese missionaries who claim that there are hundreds of thousands of Christians in China who practice their faith illegally. It almost seems to have the opposite effect of what the State is trying to accomplish. Humans are incurably religious.
bluewater454 No problem with me if the state wants to ban fundamentalist extremists, megachurch charlatans and destructive cults like Scientology. Sounds like a great idea.
And the idea that human beings are incurably religious is demonstrably false. As science progresses and people become educated, rates of religiosity drop. We’ve seen this in country after country, in wildly different cultures. The most backwards are the most religious, the most developed the most secular, with very few exceptions.
PS - The Uyghurs are an ethnic group, not a religion, and as in virtually every other country which does kowtow to US imperialist domination, ethnic tensions are being stoked by the CIA and its various media appendages.
Tyler Brown
Well Tyler, here in the United States we have things called "human rights", as in the right to believe things others might find offensive(or "dangerous"), the right to freely associate with others of like belief, the right to practice that belief system, and so on. Without those rights, you have police states such as the former Soviet Union, where you could be imprisoned simply for believing the wrong thing, and expressing that belief to the wrong person. Is that the kind of society you really want to live in?
I did a study of the "Church" of Scientology years ago(which is neither Christian, nor scientific). You are right that it is a cult, and certainly teaches some strange things. I would hardly call it "dangerous". I would consider your belief that freedom of religion is "dangerous" to be more dangerous than anything I ever heard a Scientologist ever say, but I would not want your expressing that belief to be illegal. That is what it means to live in a free society.
joe k
The CPUSA started in 1919. It nominated presidential candidates in the US from 1924 to 1984. After the fall of the Soviet Union it lost much of its influence, and simply started endorsing candidates from other parties, namely Democrats. Can you name any of these communist party members who went to jail simply for being communist? Just one.
It's more that Christianity's narrative works greatest ironically in an environment where it is actively suppressed. This is why its influence is waning in Western Europe and the US, where it's enjoyed centuries of prominance and as the dominant narrative.
Humans are incurably curious, and suppressed knowledge feeds that curiosity well.
1:10 even the soviets knew the true color of Jesus christ
We have just recently recorded a video dedicated to upcoming Easter (Ukrainian vs American), and had to do fact-check on numbers as for how many churches were destroyed or re-purposed throughout Soviet times. That was heartbreaking to see that 47K of 50K churches across USSR have undergone that notorious lot.
The Soviet government was extremely repressive of Judaism.
"Extremely" would be placing people into labor camps. But yes, generally communists didn't like religions at all, especially the ones they couldn't control
@@UshankaShow Early on they did do that, things of course liberalized but pretty much all Jewish religious practice was restricted. Between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Jews probably had it the worst.
Great video as always man. I learn something new everyday I come here
The fact that orthodox church in Russia was always an ally of the Zar family in old Russian empire and kept faithful to the old regime even after the revolution of 1917 brought it to be in conflict with Soviet government from the beginning, so it was a matter of policy of the early Soviet government adopted to face the resistance of the orthodox church performed against the new regime back at that time.The core theory of communism does not contradict with religion as we see in the writing of Karl Marx himself who never wrote anything demonising religion. The quote : Religion is the opium of people was not to demonise religion but on the contrary of that but it was taken out of its context by the west in order to agitate the masses against Communism and the USSR.
How did you come to this conclusions? quite an interesting idea and bring something new in conspiracy theory!
12:58 Ugh, that edgelord George Carlin.
Regarding turning church into a grain storage. Many churches did have grain storage on the lady, as that was how the farmers gave to the church, then the grain was given to the poor.
In this area, there are many Ukrainians and Russians. They have several Slavic churches, and I haven't seen any Orthodox. The neighbors across the street said they're Pentecostal, but not the crazy, hell and hallelujah kind we've had here. I wonder, do you know anything about these churches?
this is what happened to me at the end of 2016.
I found myself in 'That Storm' the one where ya ain't coming back from, call it whatever you like, but it was darker than any dictionary word could describe, blacker than black, no hope at all, just an episode of pure darkness.
I'm telling you this just in case some of you are going through something similar, because I ran away when that heavy fear washed over me, depression and pain has nothing on it, pretty much evil hounding you like a hungry beast. It haunted me, nightmares, it felt like I wasn't allowed to live anymore.
So I ran, cried, fought, and all my hubris, Earthly wisdom, every tamed religious rebuttal on the spectrum board of theism and logic couldn't yank me outta of this mucky pool I was drowning in. I sought doctors, thinking it was a mental breakdown, or spinal nerves, any brain disease, holy moly was my back against the wall here for help. I ended up at my brother's house, and was at the end of my road..
Can't say it was the best place in the world, they couldn't help me either in the slightest. That night it felt like this was the last time I could put up with what ever was hounding me, call it what ya want, darkness, evil, or just the damn Devil, seriously screw that clown, but with such bravado I threw the towel in. I went to sleep that night not intending to wake up. I gave a knock on that big door up there, to the Big man, and that fellow they call Jesus and admitted I was out of league on this one, this was it, I'm going to sleep, I don't know why you don't help me, but I know you're there, behind those gold gates, beyond space, beyond this box we're all in, but either way, "I give up." and then I closed my eyes in tears.
Next moment I dreamt.. The second I did I was struck by a pillar of gold light hitting my body; glittery and misty. The darkest snakes and insects scattered out of me. Then out of this light came out three angels blowing long trumpets in their hands. Yeah, it's just as big as the spectacle you're imagining right now in your head. Then suddenly I became a child in the dream..
I was now in an old stone house, a table of tools on one side. Before me was a door, the latch was missing on it.. I could see a sunset with a field of tall grass, and what sounded like children playing.. I pulled on the door but it was locked, no doorknob. The door wouldn't open, but then something came through the door, it transformed into Jesus. Within his hands he was holding his heart which was on fire, he then handed to me.. I took it and placed it inside of me. The feeling I felt was a blissful happiness that blinded everything, very blinding, nothing mattered at all, except the feeling which was one of unconditional love. Think of winning 100 mega lottos, having the perfect gal, family, someone brought back, flying in the sky, every perfect thing that can make your life and smile in the world and multiply it by a million, that was this unconditional love from this fiery heart. It is a love that is untamable. And then.. I woke up!
I never had read the bible up to this point in my life, but the things in my dream were directly from the New Testament, that little section at the far end of the bible. I picked up the book, searched it, researched it as fast as I could. But there it was.. everything from the dream.
JOHN 10:9 "I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture."
Even the Old Testament
EZEKIEL 36-26 "Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh."
EZEKIEL 10:4 "And the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord."
And lastly.
REVELATION 3:20 "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me."
Since then, I've had a burning fire in my chest, an assurance of knowing the Truth, what is Truth? It's knowing the Jesus is Lord and he has already paid for your way to Heaven, for your sins. It's up to you whether you believe my testimony or not, you have free will and ultimately you must decide, you took a chance reading this and that means you've cracked the door just a little bit to let Him in, so thanks for reading, truly you took a chance in it and He will reveal Himself to those who call out to Him.
Wow amen brother
4:54 Your mom’s village disappeared that one guy who helped destroy their church! lol
that story at the end was quite clever.
Sounds horrible way to live
Thank you again. Was this attitude toward religion throughout the entire Soviet Union, particularly Poland?
USHANKA SHOW my mistake about Poland being in USSR. I should have said Soviet Bloc? Thanks for your response
It depended on each nation, but in the case of Poland the persecution was especially bad due to the strong anti communist activities of the Catholic Church, and Vatican.
Did the people you knew get married by clerics or secular officiants?
Was employment merit-based or was there a lot of nepotism?
Was employment gain through skill and credentials? Or did people get a job based on a family member at that place of employment making sure they were hired; despite not having the appropriate skills and credentials?
What are your thoughts on the socialist system in the U.S.S.R.?
Also I would like to add that you never lived under true socialism, economic reforms were passed in 1965 to privatise the economy and the Soviet Union collapsed at the point it was at its most capitalist, not at its most socialist.
P.S. you deserve more subscribers.
Lenin was a mass murderer. But you probably knew that.
Were there any religious accommodations in the Soviet Union? Could people take off work for Eid or Yom Kippur?
What are those?
@@oilersridersbluejays Eid is a Muslim holiday and yom kippur is a Jewish holiday
At 11:00 you tell the story of the guys crossing himself and it made me think of a funny joke I first heard in the movie "Nuns on the Run" with Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane where the Catholic character tells the Protestant one that the way he thought of the sign of the Cross was "spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch", which is funny if you're a guy, I guess. I don't know why you'd have your watch (presumably a pocket watch) in your right breast pocket, but it's probably an Irish thing from the 1800's so that no pickpockets could steal your gold watch.
I love your show, BTW. I envy your wife. =D
Sad always to see people destroy anything from the past, no matter how you feel about the reason the objects or buildings were created. I was really upset to see the joy that Muslim "refugees" in Paris felt the fire at the Notre Dame. But we all know that there is such a thing as karma. And I am not religious, but it is a comfort to me to know that I was baptized a Catholic, so when I get old and worry about what may or may not happen after I shed my mortal coil (I guess that makes me snakelike, or caterpillar-like) I can at least tell myself I can at least knock at the gate and St Peter might let me in because I just gave it a try as a kid.
You could have done this video without a swipe at religion at the end.
I could, but I am still so Soviet
@@UshankaShow sovietism is evil
Nice video
The George Carlin quote 👌, perfect timing.
george carlin like lenin are in the dust bin of history................and as the psalms say "only a fool says in their own heart there is no God". one thing though in a hundred years no one (thankfully) will know who carlin is.............but they will be talking about the horrible ideas of marxism and lenin.
Sergei, how do you spell name of Homa? Xoма?
Yep.
@@UshankaShow no wonder he commit suicide.
@@stoneylonesome4062 Old video, don't remember what I said there but we used to have folk stories about two... hm, not smart dudes named Хома и Ярёма
@@UshankaShow I see… as Big Orange would say, “very poorly educated”... “low I.Q.”…tremendous.
A huge reason I am proudly antiatheist.
Background music name?
on what exact time? there are 7 different compositions.
very informative.. thanks!
I was watching this in the context of Solzhenitzyns 200 years together....what horrors the enslaved Soviet peoples had to go through so that the Tzars and the churches gold could be stolen and shipped to the USA.
Solzhenitsyn is a total fraud. Don't drink CIA kool-aid.
Im not religious at.
Thank you for this!
A church is a cultural that has a real estate portfolios.
communism desepered but GOD still here haha its his creation whatever foolish unbelievers think
What about China 🇨🇳 smart head🙂
@@whyyoumadbro-4337 Christianity is the fastest growing religion in china
I have a friend that I worked with named Alexandria who was from Volgagrad. She had nothing but disdain for the Priesthood of the Orthodox church for their horrible corruption and sexual escapades. Seems the Russian Orthodox church has always been evil and corrupt.
Like any institution the Church is subject to fallen people who stray from the ideals of the faith, which certainly don't endorse either corruption or sexual immorality.
This is the most on-brand thing the Soviets ever did, in that it was well-intended and ham-fisted in its' implementation.
I believe religion should be tolerated as its not going to go away any time soon but It should be in your own home churches are built on land that could be used for more productive things
So if me and a handful of people in my town put up money to build a church, we shouldn't be able to because you think that you can do something better with that land? That's a cancerous mindset.
This is not at all conducive towards the Apostolic Church doctrines, and would only work for Protestants.
Τhe church does not belong to the flok, it belongs to the institution sir. They make them think it belongs to them.
It should belong to the people
Khadijah Johnson except that the requirement to run a church is be gay and want to rape children.
Religion is just the ancient way for gay men to survive being gay bashed to death. Religion is fucking stupid and fake and heresy to science and mathematics which is the actual language of God and the Universe.
@@joekim3307 uhhhh what??
We need to do this again globally .
I'm ready for ya princess😘
@@joekim3307 , I agree. How can an institution for the betterment of poor have such ostentatious displays of wealth? Look at the Vatican, then at the poor in Latin America. Look at Joel Osteen's house and private jets, then look to the African villages where they drilled a well.
Main reason I don't go to church? 10% of my income to them just to be told I am doing life wrong. No thanks.
Persecutions at the hands of the clueless left always starts with valid complaints against modern religious institutions as a green light for mass murder. At the same time each charge against religion is secretly practiced by the atheist elites.......i.e. more powerful people raped children at the Epstein Lolita Express (the Clintons) and other such secret establishments than "priests" of the Papist Vatican. Yet morons like Joe Kim urge us to destroy churches and kill real Priests and elect another Clinton. That's why the answer "I'm ready for ya, princess!" was priceless.