Talk:Religion in the Soviet Union

message: This article is a little vague in the history. Was the persecution of religious ideology one that occurred since the Russian Revolution? Were these philosophies waning towards the end of the Soviet Union before the collapse? Could someone expand on this?Randhuck (talk) 15:57, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: I was surprised to see that there is no mention of Buddhism here. Buddhism was a significant religion in the USSR, perhaps the next behind Islam, or at least Judaism.
For those who want to read more fully on the subject, I recommend "Buddhism in Russia: The Story of Agvan Dorzhiev Lhasa's Emissary to the Tsar" by John Snelling, which despite the title deals with more than just Agvan Dorzhiev, and the pre-Revolutionary period. Unfortunately I don't own a copy, otherwise I would correct this oversight.  --MacRusgail 15:52, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Buddhism?

message: What was the religion in RUSSIA prior to the Bolshevik Revolution??  Reply the correct answerto: aandcsemail@yahoo.com - Thanks!
Orthodox Christianity was the predominant religion in Russia, prior to the Revolution.--Splashen (talk) 17:56, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: '''HELP!'''

message: There lived more than 1 mln RC in the SU after the Riga treaty. There existed clergy. Almost everything has been destroied till 1939.
Xx236 11:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Anti-Catholic actions till 1945

message: It's only partially true. Have you ever seen old peasant women? Are they nationalist? 
Xx236 08:57, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've met some who were, yes. 24.146.204.47 (talk) 03:16, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catholicism and Nationalism Were Closely Linked 

message: First the article says, however, one-third of the population had religious beliefs. In the next paragraph, it says however two-thirds of the population didn't have religous beliefs. I think that however should only be used one of the times because otherwise, it sounds very strange. Watersoftheoasis 02:01, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: However?

message: Much of this article is written as if the USSR still exists. Either this article is nearing on 20 years old and way out of date, or it needs someone to go over it, fix the tenses, and double check the information to make sure it is less than 20 years out of date. Israelite9191 03:17, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tense

message: Among other things-number of Catholics increased by annexation of Western Ukraine in 1939  Was Bialystok Western Ukraine ?  
Another example : In the 1920s, genuine cultural concessions were granted to the nationalities. Communist elites of various nationalities were permitted to flourish and to have considerable self-government.-a complete falsehood, as the communists didn't represent the nationalities and in fact often were hated by them.
Almost no information on discrimination of Catholics in Soviet Union.
Naturally there is no single word on Polish catholics in Soviet Union which I presume were among the largest number of Roman Catholics in SU after 1939. Before the war, in Soviet held Ukraine circa 500.000 Poles lived and there is a considerable number of sources recording discrimination against religious activity.
Another example
. Two-thirds of the Soviet population, however, were irreligious-due to official statistics or due to forced campaign of atheism ?
 About half the people, including members of the ruling Communist Party and high-level government officials, professed atheism.
Was it a choice or obedience to the totalitarian system ?
For the majority of Soviet citizens, therefore, religion seemed irrelevant.
According to who ?
In short, the article needs serious NPOV. I hope people will help.
--Molobo (talk) 02:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs serious changes to make neutral 

message: Persecution of Christians in Atheist Soviet Union
Short movie (3:35) about "Religion in the Soviet Union". Worth to see and/or add to the article as a proof, real movie footage.
--Krzyzowiec (talk) 04:02, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Persecution of Christians in Atheist Soviet Union 

message: "Two-thirds of the Soviet population, however, were irreligious." The word "irreligious" may connote hostility as well as indifference. As I suspect its usage here was not meant to convey that some part of the Soviet population may have acted with hostility towards religion, I believe that the word "secular" may be more appropriate. However, if it is true that some part of the Soviet population demonstrated or at least avowed hostility towards religion or the religious, I would concede that the use of "irreligious" may be justified with the condition that a citation is added. Indeed the first two paragraphs need sources, in general. --Absemindprof (talk) 01:24, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Semantics: Irreligious vs. Secular

message: Has two sections on this article. I am not confident enough to rectify this, but somebody should. Argo117 (talk) 14:50, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Islam... 

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message: The USSR did not have freedom of religion, but nowhere does.  The succeeding Tsarist Empire suppressed all religions apart from the Russian Orthodox, and even the Old Believers. They regularly killed Jews for fun. The Soviet regime, for all its faults, represented a breath of fresh air for the myriad of religious groups under the Orthodox knout, and after a few years it made its peace with the Russian Orthodox church too.  Sure, have a shot at them - but look at the other side.--Jack Upland (talk) 21:26, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is biased 

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message: While this article should cover the umbrella topic of religion in the Soviet Union, the broader history of religion in the USSR is (oddly) better covered in articles like Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union and Soviet anti-religious legislation, despite those articles' more focused titles. I will likely start to reorganize this article soon, but have tagged it for cleanup and additional sources as well. Subvisser5 (talk) 15:51, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It's hopeless. This is one of the most biased articles I've ever read, presenting the pernicious effect of false belief systems and the subrational mindset it promotes as a self evident good. What is a self evident good is the ability to choose your beliefs yourself, which this article made clear the SU preserved as long you kept it to yourself in the case of religion. It's a sad historical fact that masses of peoples in Russian Empire were unable to climb out of fundamental backwardness even after two generations of the discouragement of superstition and ultimately reaffirmed it but it's unconscionable to present THAT as a good. It's not worth the effort to fight this fight here. 45.46.140.49 (talk) 03:03, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganization and Additional Sources Needed