Stalin revived Russian Orthodox Church to better control Ukraine

Kathryn David, a historian with the Office of the Historian, US Department of State: “In September 1943, as the tide of the Second World War was turning in the Soviet Union’s favour, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin called a meeting at the Kremlin. Alongside the foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the head of the secret … Continue reading Stalin revived Russian Orthodox Church to better control Ukraine