One of Stalin’s personal security guards, Yuri Soloviev wrote in his notes about
Stalin’s religious behavior.
He, just like Stalin, graduated from ecclesiastical seminary and became known as
a historical figure
after a picture of him in a Soviet Army uniform standing near to Stalin, Truman
and Churchill was taken at post-war Potsdam’s Peace Conference.
He argued in his memoirs that Stalin was a man of faith.
Soloviev, as Stalin’s personal bodyguard, often secretly escorted him to a small
church which was located in the internal chambers of the Kremlin.
Stalin shut himself away in the church for a long time and humbly confessed in
front of the icon of crucified Jesus.
There is another proof:
when the people’s commissar Lazar Kaganovich asked Stalin’s permission to demolish Saint Basil’s Cathedral,
which ostensibly was in the way of heavy artillery passing through the Red
Square during celebratory parade,
Stalin was outraged by this request and strictly told him “Don’t even mention this
nonsense again”.
In 1935, the symbols of Christian holiday - Christmas were restored by Stalin’s
order:
Father Frost, Snow Maiden and Christmas tree, all these symbols were banned by
Bolsheviks in October 1917.
In 1937, publication of antireligious newspaper “Godless” was discontinued by
secret order of Stalin and many of its employees were subjected to repressions.
When the Great Patriotic War started Stalin asked Metropolitan Sergius, a man of
the same religious beliefs, to speak on the radio.
Reference: Metropolitan Sergius and his followers broke away from Patriarch
Tikhon and his followers in 1927 due to different interpretations of Orthodox teaching
and faithfully and loyally served Stalin because they accepted him as the Messiah,
i.e. Saviour from injustice on earth.
And the followers of Patriarch Tikhon accepted Stalin as the Antichrist embodied
as the Messiah.
On July 1, 1941, Metropolitan Sergius addressed to the Soviet people and
called them for a feat of arms in order to throw out uninvited guests from the
lands of Russia and other nations of the Soviet Union.
On September 8, 1943 at Stalin’s suggestion the status of the first person in the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church was changed for the first time in the history of
the Russian Orthodox Church:
The title “Patriarch” was supplemented by the words “of Moscow and all Russia”.
Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) became the first Patriarch of such kind, as
was also proposed by Stalin.
And Stalin spoke two days later after the address of Metropolitan Sergius, on July
3, 1941.
He didn’t use the usual words “Dear comrades” in his communist address to the
Soviet people
but spoke in the way that fit his internal Christian beliefs and added “Dear brothers and sisters” to the words “comrades”, “citizens”.
When Stalin was in a coma after a stroke, in a few days he came to his senses for
a short time
and when he saw an icon of crucified Jesus on one of the domes of the Kremlin,
he could hardly say his last words “O God, forgive and have mercy on me”.
This episode, which didn’t leave a mark on the history of the Soviet Union, took
place on March 3, 1953 and on March 5 Stalin died.
These facts were told by the People’s Artist of the Soviet Union Kirill Lavrov in
the documentary “The Unknown Kremlin”, which focuses on behind-the-scenes intrigues
in the Kremlin.
Why did Stalin act with his “fellow” party members, like a lunatic sadist, ruthlessly exterminating them with no mercy for his acts?
Because all of them were godless Antichrists, the spawn of Satan for Orthodox
Christian Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.
Even the founder of the Bolshevik Communist Party Vladimir Uliyanov (Lenin)
was out of his favor.
That is why Stalin isolated him from the masses as a mentally ill person in Gorki
near Moscow
Numerous facts confirm that Stalin was a religious fanatic.
But none of the former Soviet citizens take these facts seriously because these
people associate Christianity with mercy and charity.
But they forgot how Christians treated people of other faiths.
If we count how many people they exterminated for the whole time of Christianization of nations of earth,
Stalin with his repressions will be the most “merciful” Orthodox Christian, an innocent lamb by the number of people exterminated by him.
Although Stalin ruled the huge country, such as the Soviet Union, single-handedly,
he felt himself like a lonely Orthodox Christian among his faithless “fellow” party
members.
His “companions-in-arms” destroyed the symbol of Christian greatness – the
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
According to eyewitnesses, that scene made a terrible impression on Stalin.
And then his “companions-in-arms” began to destroy other Christian shrines and
churches.
Since Stalin just took the office of the head of the state and that is why he couldn’t
take any measures against his faithless “companions-in-arms”.