The USSR anti-religious campaign of 1928–1941 was a new phase of anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union following the anti-religious campaign of 1921–1928. The campaign began in 1929, with the dr
"Monks are bloody enemies of the working people" (banner on the Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev Cave Monastery, 1930s)
Schoolchildren writing anti-religious slogans for Easter in Kharkiv, April 1931
Cover of Bezbozhnik u Stanka in 1929, magazine of the Society of the Godless. The first five-year plan of the Soviet Union is shown crushing the gods of the Abrahamic religions.
Conversion of a former church into a museum in 1932
Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, there were periods when Soviet authorities suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on state interests. Soviet
The destruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour under the policy of Marxist-Leninist state atheism in the USSR
Clergy on forced labor, by Ivan Vladimirov
Soviet children protesting against Christmas in Moscow, 1929. The banners call for parents not to buy Christmas trees (left) and for the encouragement of secular education (right).
How to hold a workplace-wide anti-Christmas campaign. 1931.