By Felix Corley (auth.)
The Soviet government's angle to faith in thought and perform is proven during this wide-ranging selection of annotated texts from the newly-opened documents. integrated are records from the KGB, the relevant Committee, the Council for spiritual Affairs and diverse different legit our bodies. For the 1st time in English we see the bureaucrats' personal view of ways spiritual believers can be managed, following the tale from the persecutions of the early Soviet years to the openness instituted through Mikhail Gorbachev.
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DOCUMENT 13. [8 MAY 1922] Urgent. Secret. To All Members of the Politburo The Moscow court has sentenced to be executed 11 persons, the majority of them priests (eight priests,. one woodcutter, a woman agitator, a trader at a meat shop). Kamenev propos~s to limit the execution to two priests. I ask for votes, 'yes' or 'no', on comr. Kamenev's proposal. I am personally voting against a change to the decision of the court. CC Secretary Stalin Religion in the Soviet Union 34 Results of the voting: Comr.
Trotsky [added by hand: true! a thousand times true! Down with rubbish! Lenin 15 May] The heightened tension caused by the conflicts over church valuables, together with Soviet attempts to divide the Russian Orthodox Church brought the two sides into clear opposition. This period saw increased arrests of priests and laypeople, who could often expect no mercy from the courts especially where they had led armed opposition to the seizure of valuables. Many of the priests arrested were sentenced to execution.
In the role of organisers of protests, arrest their bosses. with the participation of the armed garrison with placards: 'Church valuables to save the lives ofthe starving', etc. 10. Try not to touch prominent priests until the end of the campaign, but secretly warn them officially (over the signature of the provincial political department) that in the case of any excesses they will be the first to answer for them. 11. Together with the agitational work the organisational must proceed: prepare the responsible office for the recording and confiscation with such calculation that the work can be conducted in the shortest time.