Two years Quote by Victor Sebestyen

“There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That's a lot to have done in But where…

— Robert Conquest

“In this way, the Church was a true reflection of the whole of Russian society. The KGB and the Russian people had penetrated each…

— Oliver Bullough

“Priests and politicians were equally bad, Allan thought, and it didn’t make the slightest difference if they were communists, fascists, capitalists or any other…

— Jonas Jonasson

“While under the tsars the average number of executions was only seventeen, by 1918 the Cheka was killing an average of a thousand people…

— Paul Johnson

“In Moscow, priests are in love with their standing. They eat fat meat and preach poverty to the miserable.”

— Katherine Arden

One of the most violent attacks on the Church in the Soviet Union was under Kruschev when, during a period of economic and political…

— George Pattison

“I suddenly realised that the devout Russian people no longer needed priests to pray them into heaven. On earth they were building a kingdom…

— John Reed

“...the Russian church had lost in its first decade of 'freedom' what Soviet believers had managed to hold on to under communisn for most…

— Nik Ripkin

“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem,…

— albert camus

“Priests were illegal, saying the mass was illegal, all banned by the Revolution.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“in Spain, thus gleaned of all heresy, the Inquisition could still swell its lists of murders to thirty-two thousand!”

— John Foxe

“Indeed, in exiling Arius and his followers the treatment of ‘heretics’ had been taken out of the hands of bishops and become subject to…

— Simon Baker