>>17867708
>You do realize the main reason why the Soviets are anti-Christian, seemingly, is because the Church authorities were just serving whatever the fuck the Tsarist and White authorities said
There wasn't separation between church and state in Russia, so the revolution that toppled the Tsarist state also toppled the church. The Tsar was supposed to be anointed by God, so shooting the Tsar was like killing God in a kind of metaphorical sense. This was a pretty radical secularizing revolution like in France and the Bolsheviks looked at religion like spiritual moonshine standing in the way of a brave new world of electrification. Kind of like...
https://youtu.be/kKO-JCx3NNw

You also gotta remember that they banned (completely) all political parties other than their own, and prohibited all competing ideologies. That's why they called religious repression "political struggle." The dial on the knob of repression phased up and down but this basic perception of religion lasted until 1988, and being suspected of religous practices could get you shitcanned from the party (and therefore any significant career) into the 80s. Then during the most intense years of civil war, they gunned down priests, nuns, monks and the occasional religious procession. They seized thousands of churches and turned them into granaries and shops.