Libs lying about everything lmao

So the source on this appears to be the Wikipedia page on the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, which surprise surprise has [citation needed] at the end of the paragraph. Even more suspicious though, the paragraph claims that 108,800 clergy were shot dead (not killed in a general sense, all shot) from 1937-1940. However, according to a pro-tsarist site there were roughly 210,000 total clergy in the church at the end of Nicholas the II’s reign. So we’re supposed to buy that after decades of the church dwindling, the Soviets executed more than half of the clergy’s peak number in a three year span.

The Wikipedia article though, does betray a certain reality of the nature of the church and the Soviet position towards it. Because it was the official church of the state, a lot of the nominal high clerical figures in the church were also prominent members of the aristocracy. So their targeting was primarily about them being members of the ruling feudal class under the Tsars than about religion.

I remember my pinko college history professor saying Stalin got his start in the seminary before politics and that when the wehrmacht was approaching Moscow and people were in a panic, one of the first things Stalin did was open the churches. I don't feel like trying to look that up, but I heard it once 18 years ago

The most famous building in Russia is an orthodox church right next to the Kremlin. Stalin would've seen it every day, but he didn't do a thing about it.

Liberals are still liberals. Anti-communism shouldn’t be surprising at all

One of Stalin's greatest mistakes, other than stopping at Berlin, was stopping the suppression of the Orthodox Church.

looks like they have receipts beyond the fake photoshop icon at the top, the argument an [amount] of people in Russia/former USSR have a religious veneration of Stalin is proven by the examples of actual iconography in the thread. of course this observation stops at "hehe don't they know Stalin killed them???? " rather than striving to understand the apparent 'contradiction'. but that is typical of liberals. the atomic unit of propaganda is not lies, it's emphasis, and using this framing definitely gives the airs of making the ROC and its adherents out to be simple and foolish---confirming russophobic lib priors.

Iconography goes so hard

NazBol brainworms

How this anonymous account has this following on Fedi seems odd as well. They seem to be posting a lot of compelling narratives on how the Russian state mistreats soldiers, but then there is also this. And suddenly a post about how the warring sides love Warhammer imagery or something.

A very bizarre account for sure. I know nothing about how to assess propaganda, but if I'd have to imagine it, this would be it.

oh fuck yeah, mastodon has insane anticommunists now