When Holy Russia’s Bells Were Silenced

[PHDNM]

When Holy Russia’s Bells Were Silenced

Prior to the 1917 Revolution, more than 1 million bronze bells rang in churches, cathedrals and monasteries throughout the Russian Empire.

After the October Revolution of 1917, church bells were especially despised by the new Bolshevik order. Bell ringing went against the party’s anti-religious campaign, and by the beginning of the 1930s all church bells had been silenced. Under Soviet law, all church buildings, as well as bells, were placed at the disposal of the Local Councils, which “based on state and public needs, used them at their own discretion.”

https://tsarnicholas.org/2019/10/30/...were-silenced/

[Crn Volk]

Those Bolsheviks caused some real damage. A tragedy.