Joseph Stalin – the elected leader of the USSR (and the man who won WWII) – attended Seminary as a youth in Russia. He maintained a close link with his priestly teachers after the 1917 Revolution (religion was not attacked but protected) and because of this – the Russian Orthodox Church played a leading role amongst the Soviet people in the fight against Nazi Germany (and its Catholic Church allies). Yes – Catholic priests accompanied the Spanish Legion, the Italian Fascists, the Hungarians, the Bulgarians, and the Romanians, etc, giving their blessings to the Catholic troops who carried-out the Holocaust that murdered 11 million – and the atrocities that killed and wounded a further 40 million Soviet men, women and children.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 