Footage Religion in the USSR. (1930 - 2004)
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0:01:17Religion in the USSR (1930-2004)
Scene №1 Interview with Patriarch Alexy II on the situation with religion in the Soviet Union
Alexy II speaks about the coming to power of Nikita Khrushchev.
On the spiritual crisis in the Soviet Union, persecution of the church and church ministers.
He speaks about the ministry of Patriarch Alexy I.
Black-and-white chronicle - service in the church with the participation of Alexis I.
Personnel:
Alexis I - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. Alexy II - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Calendar: 06.19.2004
Scene №2 Religion during the Soviet period
Chronicle:
Destruction of the Temples in the 1930s.
They take off the bells, throw them off the towers.
Explosions of temples.
Destruction of churches.
Clerics along the city's streets go accompanied by soldiers.
Nikita Khrushchev on the podium.
The period of Soviet atheism.
Moscow 1960's.
Panorama of the Kremlin, streets.
Steel Plant.
A ball of graduates in the Kremlin.
Leonid Brezhnev.
Congress.
Demonstrations.
Temple.
Calendar: 19.06.2004
Scene №3 Interview with Father Matthew
Father Matthew about the period of the Soviet era in the history of the Orthodox Church in Russia.
Photos: Nikita Khrushchev, Patriarch Pimen, Patriarch Alexy II, the destruction of churches and temples.
Calendar: 19.06.2004
Scene №4 Affected for the faith: the fate of the martyr Hilarion
In the church there is the relics of St Hilarion.
Black and White Chronicle:
Photo of Hilarion, train, railway station.
Temples, Assumption Cathedral.
The procession with the participation of Patriarch Tikhon, the Patriarch gets into the carriage.
Photo of Patriarch Tikhon and St Hilarion.
The village, the river, the fire.
The Solovki.
Photo of St Hilarion: work in the camps, a dilapidated temple.
Calendar: 19.03.2005
Scene №5 Presentation of the book "Martyrs, confessors and devotees of piety of the Russian Orthodox Church of the 20th century"
Multivolume edition: "Martyrs, confessors and devotees of piety of the Russian Orthodox Church of the 20th century".
Page turning.
Illustrations of the book.
Rural landscape:
Horse cart
Children are taken on a cart.
The face of an elderly woman (large).
Interview with the author of the book - hegumen Damaskin.
Wooden cross.
Hegumen at the cross.
A pogost, b / w photos of a clergyman.
Panorama of the folders "Archive files".
The Ark with relics near the icon of the New Martyrs.
Icon of the Holy Martyrs Alexander (Smirnov) and Fedor (Remizov).
Cancers with their relics.
The interior of the temple: the iconostasis, the Royal Gates.
Icon of the Holy Martyr Theodore (Kolerov).
Newspaper with an article about Father Theodore.
His Psalter, on which he left his last lines before the execution.
Calendar: 19.03.2005
Scene №6 Photos of priests who suffered for their faith
Photos of priests and religious figures sentenced for the faith in the 1930s.
Calendar: 19.03.2005