The Catholic Church

The Catholic Church posed some threat to the state, however but there were few Catholics within the actual Russian state. Rather, most were within the Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and others. But when these became satellite countries, something had to be done. Thus in 1945 my organizations made their rounds, and we arrested, deported, and detained a good amount of the Catholic leadership. We detained hundreds; both clergy and lay leadership. We even detained all nine bishops.