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When Russia attempted to abolish religion

3 October 2022

“Lenin and the leaders of the Soviet state want to destroy established religion of all kinds. They plundered churches, they destroyed churches, or they turned them into warehouses, and so on,” said Professor Geoffrey Hosking (UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies).

Listen: BBC Radio 4 ‘Living with the Gods’ (from 6 mins 43 secs)