Newstarget.com By Ethan Huff
Most people know about the Holocaust, but did you also know that a much worse mass slaughter of human beings occurred a few decades prior when communist Bolsheviks, many of them Jewish, murdered more than 60 million Orthodox Christians and Muslims in the Russian Revolution?
It started in 1917 when two revolutions swept through Russia, effectively ending Russia’s longtime legacy of imperial rule and ushering in the murderous communist regime known as the Soviet Union.
Before the communist takeover of Russia, the Russian people were largely poor in earthly possessions but rich in Christ Jesus through their Orthodox faith. The Bolsheviks scoffed at this arrangement, thinking it foolish that anyone would follow Christ rather than try to live their best life now.
“… for the peasantry (at the beginning of the 20th century 85% of the peasants were illiterate) the Church remained the only source of understanding about the world,” says one historical account.
“At church services priests read the Bible and explained its meaning to the peasants. They also talked about the various events and realities of life, saying for example that monarchy is a form of human rule established by God, and that everyone should know his place and not seek to change it.”
For better or for worse, the Church of Russia operated as a bedrock for Russian society pre-Soviet Union. It functioned well beyond just a guardian of spiritual life to become a bureaucratic system and institution integral to the overall functionality of the state…
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