很喜欢这段指桑骂槐的解说词~~
from episode4 of the history of christianity(bbc)
Soviet Communism,with Lenin at its hand,the Bolshevil Party seized the revolution and installed a dictatorship of the proletariat,with absolute power over all Russia.In this new world order,there was no place for God.
But the Bolsheviks saw all religion as the opium of the masses,a symptom of false consciousnesses and,worst of all,an obstacle to scientific socialism.
In Jan.1918,Lenin formally separated church from State.And that was just the 1st step in a systematic policy to purge Christianity altogether from Russian life,and force atheism on its people.
But it was a policy Lenin didn't live to carry out.
The task was followed through even more ruthlessly by a man who,in just 10 years,brought Orthodoxy close to extinction-something neither Catholic Crusaders,Muslim armies,nor Russian tyrants had managed to do in 1000 years.
Joseph Stalin was a Georgian gangster whose mother had once hoped he would become a bishop.
Instead,he had manoeuvred his way up through ranks of the Bolshevik party to become supreme ruler of the Soviet Union.
A red tsar,one might say.
His plan was to wipe out all real life in Orthodoxy.
In a society without God there was no need for churches.This is the dynamiting of Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 1931.
Then there were the human victims--the Orthodox faithful.
Some local Soviet commanders lined up icons sentenced them to death and shot them.
Soviet Communism,with Lenin at its hand,the Bolshevil Party seized the revolution and installed a dictatorship of the proletariat,with absolute power over all Russia.In this new world order,there was no place for God.
But the Bolsheviks saw all religion as the opium of the masses,a symptom of false consciousnesses and,worst of all,an obstacle to scientific socialism.
In Jan.1918,Lenin formally separated church from State.And that was just the 1st step in a systematic policy to purge Christianity altogether from Russian life,and force atheism on its people.
But it was a policy Lenin didn't live to carry out.
The task was followed through even more ruthlessly by a man who,in just 10 years,brought Orthodoxy close to extinction-something neither Catholic Crusaders,Muslim armies,nor Russian tyrants had managed to do in 1000 years.
Joseph Stalin was a Georgian gangster whose mother had once hoped he would become a bishop.
Instead,he had manoeuvred his way up through ranks of the Bolshevik party to become supreme ruler of the Soviet Union.
A red tsar,one might say.
His plan was to wipe out all real life in Orthodoxy.
In a society without God there was no need for churches.This is the dynamiting of Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 1931.
Then there were the human victims--the Orthodox faithful.
Some local Soviet commanders lined up icons sentenced them to death and shot them.
