The foremost religion, and for that matter, the foremost enemy of the well-being of the state was the Russian Orthodox Church. During the first five years of the regime, we murdered 28 Russian Orthodox bishops, and 1200 Russian Orthodox priests. Killed. The schools of this illusion: seminaries were closed.
Progress was quick. By 1941, only 500 churches were still open. Out of 54,000 at the beginning of World War One. Like I said, progress was quick. The church was seen as greedy, corrupt, which it may well have been, in either case, it didn't matter.
However, we ran into a problem. World War Two came around, Hitler attacked, the morale plummeted. Faced with the decision, we looked to the short term. We allowed some churches to reopen. We gave an inch, and they took a mile. Before Khrushchev took power, some 22,000 churches opened in the country.
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