The Legal Position of the Churches in East Central Europe from 1945 to 1989
Journal: Legal studies on Central Europe
Year: 2023

After the end of hostilities, Central and Eastern Europe forcibly became a zone of Soviet influence. Local communist governments adopted the political and legal solutions of the USSR as their model. Under the assumed model of a secular state, they undertook anti-religious policies combined with indoctrination in the spirit of materialist philosophy. Despite the preservation of the appearance of religious freedoms under the façade constitutions, in reality, the legislation enacted and the actions