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  • Stalin’s Revival of the Moscow Patriarchate

    Stalin’s Revival of the Moscow Patriarchate

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    Matthew Namee
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    “When Hitler invaded the USSR in June 1941,” writes historian Jordan Hupka, “Stalin again changed the Soviet position on religion. All anti-religious publications ceased and some churches in major urban centres were allowed to open.”[1] Stalin was a shrewd man; as Steven Miner writes in Stalin’s Holy War, “Very early in the war, Stalin grasped…