Actual photo! Militant Russian atheists marching!

[onager]

Oh sorry, those are Russian Xians marching during WWII. The 2 groups are so easily confused. And who was running Russia during WWII? I forget, but I'm sure somebody here can remind me.

FTR, they're carrying the icon of Our Lady of Kazan around the besieged city of Leningrad. Which Gawd miraculously delivered, after 3 years and thousands of deaths:



Off-topic, but I'm linking to it anyway, since I also found the photo here:

This website also has a collection of WWII art created by Russian kids from Moscow's Children's Art School #3 in 2007. It was a class assignment.

Some of the art is pretty amazing. This was done by a 14-yr-old girl, more at the link below:



http://02varvara.wordpress.com/category/world-war-ii/page/4/

[laconicsax]

1. There's some fantastic art there. K&R

[midnight]

2. So much saddness... War should be outlawed.... Breadlines and

orphans continue to be created in every generation...

[rug]

3. I like this one.

"American soldiers pray in an old Nazi HQ. 'Shma Yisrael Adonai elohaynu Adonai echad.' (שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָד.) 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord is Our God, the Lord is One.'"

http://02varvara.wordpress.com/category/world-war-ii/

[humblebum]

4. Would be interesting to see what happened to them in the years after the war

when the atheistic anti-religious fervor started up again.

[cleanhippie]

6. Oh, yes, very interesting.

:boring:

Get a new act.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Stalin temporarily let up on religious and other repression during World War II

because he wanted the people united in the war effort, especially after some of the ethnic minorities initially greeted the Nazis as liberators--until the Nazis blew their advantage by committing the usual atrocities against the conquered people.

After World War II, all the types of repression started back up again. That was the era of greatest anti-Semitism, for example, and the takeover of the Baltic states was brutal.