Soviet-Orthodox Conflict (Chronicles of Grigori)

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## Soviet-Orthodox Conflict (Chronicles of Grigori)

Soldiers of the Holy Orthodox Salvation Front being blessed by members of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Soldiers of the Soviet Army launching an assault against fortified positions of the Holy Orthodox Salvation Front in 1966.

## Soviet-Orthodox Conflict (Chronicles of Grigori)

### Outcome:

Holy Orthodox Salvation Front victory * Collapse of the Soviet Union
* Resuscitation of the Russian Orthodox Church
* Establishment of the Russian Federation
* De-Communisation campaigns
* Soviet war criminals held accountable with the Novgorod Inquiries

Commanders| * **Gerasim Savelievich** (1947-1978)
* **Torchinovich Zakharov** (1978-1991)
* **Georgy Malenkov** (1953-1953)
* **Nikita Khrushchev** (1953-1964)
* **Leonid Brezhnev** (1964-1982)
* **Yuri Andropov** (1982-1984)
* **Konstantin** (1984-1985)
* **Mikhail Gorbachev** (1985-1991)

Strength| * 500,000+

Casualties| * 70,000+

The **Soviet-Orthodox Conflict** (Russian: Советско-Православный Конфликт) was a series of protracted campaigns, conflicts, uprisings and revolutions against the Soviet Union, adjudged through the policies implemented by the centralised authoritarian Soviet regime. The Soviet-Orthodox Conflict's origins is traced back with the beginning of the Russian Civil War, in which the Russian Orthodox Church supported the White Army's struggle against the Communist revolutionaries of the Red Army which eventually won the conflict and exterminated the Romanov Dynasty along with severing ties with the Orthodox church and purging all affiliates and believers of the Russian Orthodox Church, as many Slavs were religious. Much of the Slavic Soviet population was against the prohibition of the Russian Orthodox Church, however the Soviet Union suppressed all religious affiliations and it's members were either captured or killed with many heads of the Russian Orthodox Church being exiled from the USSR, this led to many staunch believers of the Orthodox faith to rise up against the Soviet government especially after the end of the Second World War, where it is widely conjectured that the conflict originally began. The Orthodox believers banded together and proclaimed the Holy Orthodox Salvation Front as a unified confederation in the face of Soviet repression, as due to the proclamation made by the figureheads of the HOSF, the conflict then erupted throughout the Soviet Union, predominately situated within the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Armenian Soviet Socialist Republics, although conflict was still widespread throughout the entire Soviet Union, this also inspired further religious and ethnic uprisings to commence throughout the Soviet Union which hindered it's ability to continue reforms and growth as it's public infrastructure and state-owned facilities were targeted by opposing forces. Seemingly, the public uproar led to religious idolism returning within Russia as the conflict was fought to "revive the Russian Orthodox faith." in which religious subjects of the Soviet Union, primarily in rural regions of the nation rose up against the Soviet authorities and aided the Holy Orthodox Salvation Front's efforts against toppling the Soviet government and reinstating a Russian Monarchy.

Although, on the basis of being a religious conflict, the Soviet-Orthodox Conflict also played a significant role in international and national affairs at the time, many opposition groups against the Soviet Union, primarily Democratic aligned parties and organisations began to stage their own struggles against the Soviet Union which weren't as widely successful or supported by external powers, however the Holy Orthodox Salvation Front did gain social and political support as many Christian groups condemned the acts of the Soviet government and the conflict was widely regarded as the "crusade against Communism." Insignificantly, the HOSF was supported with material aid from the Western Bloc from nations such as the United States and the United Kingdom.

With the downfall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the prolonged internal conflict within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics came to an end once the establishment of the Russian Federation was made and that the Russian Federation also reopened religious relations and restoring the Russian Orthodox Church within the Russian Federation and De-Communisation was implemented mostly supported by the Orthodox church and other Anti-Communists associations. An overlooked juncture of the conflict was the atrocities committed by the Holy Orthodox Salvation Front with the neglectful handling of Soviet prisoners of war, the HOSF massacred Soviet affiliates and stroke against families of Soviet officials, openly humiliating Soviet prisoners of wars by publicly executing them unlawfully such as hanging and crucifying captured Soviets, displaying them across localities. The war also was brutal and cost the lives of many on both sides of the conflict, despite the remainder of the international community being unaware of the conflict.