Second Russian Civil War

The Second Russian Civil War was a conflict between the Soviet Union (the government loyalists), and a fundamentalist Christian Orthodox extremist movement, known as the Apostilic People's Front (APF), which seeked to eliminate the Soviet Union (seeing it as too "evil" and "ungodly").
==Background==
In the aftermath of World War II, a Christian revival occurred in Russia, with missionaries from Christianity coming to the Soviet Union en-masse with the intention of charity work, primarily assisting the Soviets in rebuilding the country following the Japanese invasion of the USSR, in addition to spreading Christianity in the Soviet Union.
The Soviet government welcomed the assistance at first, but then began to antagonize the Christian missionaries in the region when Christianity began to spread like wildfire across the USSR. To that end, a Great Purge was initiated, with mass arrests of Christian missionaries and converts occurring across the country. The main charge: "brainwashing" the people with "foreign" and "dangerous" ideologies. The Soviets apaprently saw all forms of religion and faith as a cancer, a threat to the sovereignty of the Soviet Union, as well as an attack on the legacy of the great Marxist-Leninist heroes, like Karl Marx, the man who founded Marxism in the first place, Nikolai Lenin, and Leon Trotsky. They also saw Christianity as the biggest disease, an "opium for the people", a "crutch for people to stand on in times of trouble", a "brainwashing technique."
In the wake of the Soviet persecution, a Christian extremist movement emerged in Russia, known as the Apostolic People's Front. This was a Christian extremist movement that saw the Soviet government as "ungodly" and an evil regime that needed to be removed.
The APF launched a series of attacks against the government, starting with mass riots, acts of vandalism against Communist symbols, and eventually, a full-scale war.
==Notable events==
*Vorkuta Prison Riot (1950)
*Operation Wormwood
*Operation Divine Fury
*Operation Wrath
*Battle in the Caucasus Mountains
*Siege of Sevastopol
==Gallery==
Russian APF soldiers.jpg|APF militants fighting in Azerbaijan, 1963
Spetsnaz .jpg|Soviet Spetsnaz operatives breaking into an Apostolic People's Front outpost in Siberia, 1963
Spetsnaz soldier at base.png|Soviet Loyalist guard engaging APF soldiers laying siege to a Soviet outpost in Kazakhstan, 1960
Soviet patrol.jpg|Soviet Loyalists patrolling a frozen lake, 1952
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