Very rare! Destruction of the Christ the Savior Cathedral, 1931

I found this film in old grandpa's archives. Revolting plans, terrible fights against religion, churches shut and blocked, priesthood massacre. Barbarous cruelty of Soviet authorities and J. Stalin.

Wikipedia says:
On 5 December 1931, by order of Stalin's minister Kaganovich, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was dynamited and reduced to rubble. It took more than one blast to destroy the church and more than a year to clear the debris from the site. The original marble high reliefs were preserved and are now on display at the Donskoy Monastery (see the photo). For a long time, they were the only reminder of the largest Orthodox church ever built.

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[TeutonicEmperor1198]

wise people!!!

[f1f1s]

@TeutonicEmperor1198

Wise indeed. Unfortunately the success of atheism has been pushed back during the last 20 years of Russia. Fat machiavellian priests are gaining ground, spreading antiscience and manacling mindless herds of Russians.

Religion is equal to darkness, although the most beautiful and complicated music is Bach’s, Liszt’s and Reger’s organ works written for the Church. Knowledge is religion; abstract mathematical perfection is God.Creative people are prophets.

[ieqwerty1996]

what's the name of soundtrack? (как называется саундтрек?)

[f1f1s]

@ieqwerty1996

Это фрагмент из «Увертюры 1812 года» П. И. Чайковского.

That's an excerpt from Tchaikovsky's "1812 overture".

[BayAreaOrBust]

Is there somewhere I could find this full documentary?

[XareSoft]

URODY

[33guyfawkes]

josef stalin was a hero!

[russianamerican1]

hospody pomeelui meenya

[Tramfan88]

@PureSoapCleans BTW, who needs that fuckin' democracy?



[SpanishBogatyr]

@PureSoapCleans In the world of Karl Marx there is the most pure human soul. Marx said that the proletariat must take over the government, use it in order to make the things better and then destroy it and form societies of free humans, as the anarchists or the randists say. Nobody has reached the third stage, and the second was just used for gaining power and wealth by oligarchs.