Communism

By ok friend

  • 1917

    russian revolution leads to communist power in russia

  • 1918

    Tsar Nicholas II supposedly assassinated by the bolsheviks

  • 1925

    league of the godless formed to persecute christians

  • 1927

    Stalin takes power in russia

  • 1929

    priests not considered workers and taxed heavily

  • 1929

    Law on Religious associations passed

  • 1937

    the pope condemns communism and calls it an evil empire, declaring that, "an iron curtain has descended across the continent"

  • 1939

    only 500 churches remain in russia