The Warmth of Stalin's Fires

What if Stalin had lived long enough to implement his religion purges to the fullest extent, destroying Churches, Synagogues, Mosques, and all other manner of places of Worship?

Would we see radical Islam extremists in 1940s Russia?

Would they be cooperating with angered Jews, Catholics, Uniats, and Etc. (like the enemy of my enemy is my friend)?

EDIT: Wrong place, sorry. Won't happen again/
 
What if Stalin had lived long enough to implement his religion purges to the fullest extent, destroying Churches, Synagogues, Mosques, and all other manner of places of Worship?

Would we see radical Islam extremists in 1940s Russia?

Would they be cooperating with angered Jews, Catholics, Uniats, and Etc. (like the enemy of my enemy is my friend)?

EDIT: Wrong place, sorry. Won't happen again/

This will either result in a revolution, or a genoicide that will make the Holocause, Holodomor, and Cultural Revolution look tame in comparison
 
At the time of Stalin's death, the Orthodox church was undergoing a recovery thanks to the Patriotic War and the number of active churches was growing. Though he was probably contemplating more severe anti-semitic measures just before he died, that was like most cases of anti-semitism little to do with the Jewish faith. I have no idea where you've heard that Orthdoxy and Islam where about to be dismantled in 1952.
 
At the time of Stalin's death, the Orthodox church was undergoing a recovery thanks to the Patriotic War and the number of active churches was growing. Though he was probably contemplating more severe anti-semitic measures just before he died, that was like most cases of anti-semitism little to do with the Jewish faith. I have no idea where you've heard that Orthdoxy and Islam where about to be dismantled in 1952.

Until the Patriotic War the number of churches,mosques,sinagogues etc. was decreasing by every year, in a world where Stalin sees no reason to make a truce with religious organizations where would it come to?
Also note Hruschev destroyed Stalin's truce and began a new atheist campaing, if the campaign didn't stop at Hruschev what would happen then?
 
Until the Patriotic War the number of churches,mosques,sinagogues etc. was decreasing by every year, in a world where Stalin sees no reason to make a truce with religious organizations where would it come to?

The trend began earlier: look at Alexander Nevsky. The GPW consumated it by making it necessary. Without the war, I doubt you'll see the kind of pseudo-alliance that existed in late Stalinist years (IIRC, the Soviets showed marked favouritism to the Moscow Patriarchate in Galicia), but it would come to "not encouraged or given publicity, but tolerated", not mass persecution.

Also note Hruschev destroyed Stalin's truce and began a new atheist campaing, if the campaign didn't stop at Hruschev what would happen then?

It didn't: Brezhnev wasn't friendly either.
 
The abolishion of the Ukrainean Uniate Church is because communists had deep distrus of Greek-Catholics because of their ties with Rome and western nations, they abolished the Uniate Church in Romania and Belarus also because of this reason.
 
The abolishion of the Ukrainean Uniate Church is because communists had deep distrus of Greek-Catholics because of their ties with Rome and western nations, they abolished the Uniate Church in Romania and Belarus also because of this reason.

True, but I believe the MP was given the confiscated church properties in Galicia (and Besserabia). It's hardly outlandish, since the number of Orthodox churches in th USSR was growing at the time and important institutions had been re-instated.

The USSR wasn't all that militantly atheist in my opinion. It persecuted the church in the 20s and 30s because the church had until recently been a corrupt and brutal political organ of the tsarist state and tried to set itself up as an alternative to the communist party in the 20s and 30s, but generally it varied between unenthusiastically and nominally atheist. You needed to be at least supposedly atheist to get anywhere in the party, but after a certain point in the 30s the spirituality of much of the Soviet population was never really challenged. The Soviet countries were (and remain) countries were religion was an important part of social identity, so the scenario isn't really very plausible to start with.
 
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True, but I believe the MP was given the confiscated church properties in Galicia (and Besserabia). It's hardly outlandish, since the number of Orthodox churches in th USSR was growing at the time and important institutions had been re-instated.

The USSR wasn't all that militantly atheist in my opinion. It persecuted the church in the 20s and 30s because the church had until recently been a corrupt and brutal political organ of the tsarist state and tried to set itself up as an alternative to the communist party in the 20s and 30s, but generally it varied between unenthusiastically and nominally atheist. You needed to be at least supposedly atheist to get anywhere in the party, but after a certain point in the 30s the spirituality of much of the SOviet population was never really challenged. The Soviet countries were (and remain) countries were religion was an important point of social identity, so the scenario isn't really very plausible to start with.

From personal experience I can say that there was atheist-materialist education in schools and my grandfather ,who was in the army, had to conduct the religious marriage in secret, as well as the baptism.
The truth is twofold yes the Church was used as an instrument of state power in the USSR, and it was heeavily infiltrated by the KGB but at the same time its influence was seen as troublesome and churches were generally closed down, the Stalin period rebuilt some churches but only because the number decreased immensly in the periode before.
 
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By the 40s, the anti-Church violence was largely over. People went to churches for feasts, but the state kept tabs on the goers, often through the cooperation of the church hierarchy. I am not sure why Stalin would have decided to go for round 2.
 
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