Аtheistic policy of bolshevik’s and its perception by Rome-Catholic clergy and believers in 1920-1930th

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Аtheistic policy of bolshevik’s and its perception by Rome-Catholic clergy and believers in 1920-1930th

Journal Title: Eminak - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 4

Abstract

Subsoviet Ukraine at the beginning of 1920th had developed religiously confessional life. Orthodox, Rome-Catholics, Protestants and even Muslims presented it. Each of confessions has got under hard party-imperious pressure. The establishment of Soviet Power in Ukraine was accompanying by a successive offensive by communist party organs on the right of conscience and religions. There were difficult relations between Bolsheviks and believers of different Christian churches and confessions, which often outgrew in social conflicts. During 1920th Communist-party organs were realizing politics of gradual socio-political and economic discrimination of different confessions believers. Power in relationships with believers and church clergy applied various propagandist campaigns, it conducted actions taking off church values, ancient religious texts/books, simultaneously there were resettlement of cult buildings, and clergy was persecuting. Especially difficult relations were folded between Communist-party organs(institutions) and believers of Poland catholics in Right-bank Ukraine. Completion of Soviet-Polish war in 1921st the signing the Riga peaceful agreement, left on itself unsolvedness of territory question. Power has forced to consider the existence on Volyn and Podillya more than three hundred thousand of Polish community that rather negatively treated itself to new power. The Polish peasants, feeling on themselves the methods of «military communism» and displays of dictatorship of proletariat, rightly considered the less evil in restoration of «bourgeois-landowners’» power. For a fight against the religiousness of Polish minorities, power used two basic methods. Namely: measures of administrative-punitive pressure and facilities of anti-religious propaganda. The range of discriminatory administrative-pantitive measures included closing of operating cult buildings; refuse in reregistering, intimidating of believers, administrative arrests. Separately punitive organs pressed on ministers of worship. They were pursuing and arresting for shallow hooliganism, anti-Soviet, counter-revolutionary and anti-state crimes (mainly espionage in behalf on lordly Poland). In 1926 power imposed restriction rights for all clericals. The family members of clericals were pursued and their near relationship: children were eliminated from educational establishments, families were deported, send to the community-service camps, lowered or deprived political rights. In spite of hard antireligious propaganda, closing of cult building, arrests of crew the religious life of the Ukrainian Rome- Catholics proceeded. This was the family resistance to punitively repressive politics of the mode, the Polish population fight for maintenance of the national-and-cultural and confessional identity. Thus, without regard to the general closing of cult building, realization of mass repressions against Rome-Catholics clergy and almost complete liquidation of legal activity forms the Ukrainian Rome-Catholics during 1930th-1920th continued to profess a Christian faith and adhere to spiritual traditions and ceremonies. The Polish peasants of Volyn and Podillya remained in the bosom of Rome-Catholics Church that for them became basis for maintenance of national identity in the years of the Soviet totalitarian mode in Ukraine.

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Viktor Doсenko

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