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

Revolting plans, terrible fights against religion, churches shut and blocked, priesthood massacre. Barbarous cruelty of Soviet authorities and J. Stalin.
Alternative opinion: the country needed to make a leap into industrial age. Prejudice and brakes had to be removed. The authorities had to give the population an incentive to work, whereas the religion was an archaic remainder of the tsar age. The elimination of illusions and sheer realism—that's what the late-blooming country needed to catch up with the strongest European countries.

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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[TheUltimateBillForce]

Do you know who filmed this, was it the Russian Government or was it a member of the general population at the time?

[f1f1s]

This is an extract from a documentary. There was no amateur or bootleg recording at that time! Even the process of filming seemed to the population a miracle because...

The general population was so poor! Most of them were peasants deprived of their property during the “collectivisation”. The proletarians consisted of the reluctant to do agriculture (however, being a heavy industry worker was praised). The bourgeoisie, the rich and the intelligentsia fled to Europe and America. Nuff said?

[TheJohnyFreeman]

There is no god guyz.

Why you cant understand that?

[f1f1s]

Lack of education. Inability to grasp some simple formulæ leads to irratinonal explanations of the atomic space-time structure of the Universe and imaginary friends which is commonly known as delirium.

Необразованность. Неспособность силой разума вникнуть в простые формулы, описывающие порядок вещей и структуру времени-пространства Вселенной, приводит к иррациональным недоказуемым заявлениям и к возникновению вспомогательных вымышленных друзей (ку-ку), что есть не что иное, как бредовая иллюзия.

[doktornauka1]

Јебем ти матер у пичку смдрљиву усташку!

[Gary9Vin]

Vurdulakmortem, you are a communist heathen piece of shit. You will rot in Hell for your remarks.

[Ariel Napitupulu]

Is a church not mosque

[VurdulakMortem]

I'm so glad they blew the church. Fuck Christianity, that church was a symbol of tsarist power and manipulation of ignorant peasantry. The priests were spreading lies about how man should bow down to god and the Tsar who was the ruler because that's supposedly what god wanted. There's no excuse for someone to willfully remain ignorant and spread the cancer of mind known as Christianity. Not to mention the clergy supported the tsarist nationalist in the civil war so they were literally enemies

[SkylitDriveFan123]

I don't think I have seen so much anti-Semitism in video comments since I watched any given video on Russia Today's channel

[aabb katas]

i agree

[IceStorm750]

your quite the little rebellious teenager aren't you?? well you have a lot of maturing to do and understanding how the world is, not through your computer screen.

[TheSyndicateGreece]

Sounds like an amazing world to me. Wish i lived there at that time. Don't you?

[TheSyndicateGreece]

Yes!!! Bring that shit down!!! Burn them all the fucking churches, the opium of the people!!! And the mosques, and the synagogues!!! Leave none standing!!! But their shitty "holy" books!!! This is my favorite video so far on the internet!!! Destroy religion everywhere!!!!!

[MZarkov]

What a hideous, gaudy, tasteless building. This monument to Tsarism should never have been restored.