>>17889022 (OP)My favourite part of these bizarre Stalin icons is that no church accepts them but they are still made and used by private citizens anyway.
This is not counting the Matrona Icon in Tblisi with a little vignette of Stalin or anything like that.
He was too anti-orthodox to ever be made a Saint, but I'm sure they would if they could get away with it. They cannonized the Romanovs after all.
>>17889097It was never illegal per se. Just very restricted.