RE: Did Stalin have the relationship with the Orthodox Church?
May 15, 2013 at 3:14 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2013 at 3:25 pm by Anomalocaris.)
He was certainly not a christian by the time he joined the bosheviks. If he used the name of Jesus in public speeches during his rule, it would have been big international news and would be unlikely to be relegated to some obscure unattributed assertion on a web forum.
But during WWII he did award the medal of "Hero of Socialist Labor", which he himself created as the highest civilian medal of the Soviet regime, to the patriarch of the orthodox church for cooperated with the Soviet war effort against the Nazis and preaching that holdouts against the communist athiestic ideology should nevertheless obey Stalin and joint the red army. Appearently so long as you die when Stalin tells you to die, it doesn't matter to Stalin if you think you are going to heaven, and so long as you died believing Jesus, it doesn't matter to the orthodox church that you died doing the earthly bidding of Stalin.
BTW, the prestigious "Hero of Socialist Labor" medal fell into disuse after the fall of the Soviet Union, but it was recently revived and restored to the head of the hierchy of civilian medals in Russia by Vladimir Putin. And he awarded another "Hero of Socialist Labor" to the orthodox church in 2012.
The irony.
But during WWII he did award the medal of "Hero of Socialist Labor", which he himself created as the highest civilian medal of the Soviet regime, to the patriarch of the orthodox church for cooperated with the Soviet war effort against the Nazis and preaching that holdouts against the communist athiestic ideology should nevertheless obey Stalin and joint the red army. Appearently so long as you die when Stalin tells you to die, it doesn't matter to Stalin if you think you are going to heaven, and so long as you died believing Jesus, it doesn't matter to the orthodox church that you died doing the earthly bidding of Stalin.
BTW, the prestigious "Hero of Socialist Labor" medal fell into disuse after the fall of the Soviet Union, but it was recently revived and restored to the head of the hierchy of civilian medals in Russia by Vladimir Putin. And he awarded another "Hero of Socialist Labor" to the orthodox church in 2012.
The irony.
