Question: Under the communist party, organized religion in the Soviet Union was officially:
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- 1) Tolerated
- 2) Encouraged
- 3) Subsidized
- 4) Banned
Answer: The correct answer is: <u>4) Banned.</u>
Explanation: The Soviet Union was the first state to have as an objective the abolisment of religion. The Communist regime ridiculed religion, harassed believers, confiscated church property, and propagated atheism in the schools. The Soviets had originally believed that if churches were deprived of its power, religion would be quickly eliminated. When this did not happen, they took more drastic measures. In Stalin’s purges (1936-1937) tens of thousands of clergy were grouped and shot. In some areas, it even became illegal for parents to teach religion to their own children. From 1917 to the 1980s, the more religion sustained, the more the Soviets would do to eliminate it.
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Winston Churchill thought of the iron curtain as a threat because it caused major tension between capitalist and communist governments. This eventually lead to Germany splitting into the west vs. the east and the Red Scare ( fear that many Asians were communist supporting spies) which led to much discrimination and unfair treatment.
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when France's expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British
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