For whatever reason modern media and social culture is zealous in its condemnation of Nazism which was the attempt to exterminate certain ethno-racial groups of people.  Strangely, they give the Bolshevik/Communists a whitewash for the most part even though they killed millions more than the Nazi’s dreamed of.

In Interfax article on the Russian Revolution reveals:  “20,000 priests were executed in 1917-1918, chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society Sergey Stepashin said… He also cited the information saying that there survived only four working hierarchs in the country in 1920, one hundred of 60,000 churches still worked.

“From all revolutions carried out in the world, it was the only one directed against the foundations of religion, against the Russian Orthodox Church, in fact against our culture. It hit the backbone of the Russian nation, interned the bloom of the nation – several million people,” he said.

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