He contrasts Lenin and Trotsky as atheist Marxist intellectuals hostile to Orthodoxy with Stalin as a seminary-formed figure whose World War II mobilization relied on Orthodox religious and nationalist sentiment.
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He contrasts Lenin and Trotsky as atheist Marxist intellectuals hostile to Orthodoxy with Stalin as a seminary-formed figure whose World War II mobilization relied on Orthodox religious and nationalist sentiment.
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"because of his rapprochement with the Orthodox Church starting with Lenin there was massive persecution of the Orthodox Church because Lenin Trotsky they were..."
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