Wikipedia's article on the persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union, community-edited. States the campaign's span from Lenin's early 1918 decree stripping churches of legal standing and property through Stalin-era mass executions of clergy, Khrushchev's renewed 1959 to 1964 church-closure campaign, and Gorbachev's 1988 celebration of the millennium of Russian Christianity, which the article treats as the effective end of systematic persecution. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used specifically to extend the suppression arc to 1988, since the reused scholarly source on file (Pospielovsky, 1984) can only substantiate the campaign through the early 1980s by its own publication date; the two sources' different endpoints are named rather than silently merged. NotesUsed alongside the existing Pospielovsky monograph for the Soviet persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church, specifically for the 1988 endpoint the older book predates.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_the_Soviet_Union
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This source names Soviet Union directly: "the persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union, community-edited."
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This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Religious Events, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Spread Events, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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