The fight against religion in the USSR (1927-1928)

A red flag is placed on the church dome in place of a cross.

A sign for the Community Center hangs above the entrance to the former Orthodox church.

A banner with an anti-religious slogan hangs above the entrance to the former church, now converted into a Community Center.

A church bell tower and peasant carts stand at the entrance to the church.

The interior of the church, now converted into a grain storage facility, features an iconostasis half-filled with grain.

Collective farmers carry sacks into the grain storage facility.

A collective farmer inside the former church rakes grain with a wooden shovel.

A red flag flutters on the dome of a former church in the village of Verkhneye Tolucheevo in the Voronezh province.

Children from the village of Verkhneye Tolucheevo place a red flag on the gate on the day of atheism, celebrated instead of Trinity Sunday.

A demonstration of atheists in the village of Verkhneye Tolucheevo.

Children stand on the ridge of the gate near the red flag.

Village girls ride horses.

People walk in a field, a close-up of a tractor wheel.

A view of the field, with a column of atheists in the distance carrying a red banner and a tractor in front.

People walking in a field, a tractor wheel (close-up).

View of a field, in the distance a column of atheists with a red banner and a tractor with a reaper in front.