The Bolsheviks declared war on the Russian Orthodox Church as soon as they seized power.
They stripped it of legal status and property, then executed thousands of priests, monks, and believers in the Red Terror.
Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev was dragged from the Monastery of the Caves, tortured, and shot in January 1918.
Patriarch Tikhon publicly excommunicated the Bolshevik leadership and spent his remaining years under arrest until his death in 1925.
In 1922, while the country starved, the Soviets seized church gold and jewels under the pretext of famine relief.
When believers in Shuya tried to stop them, troops opened fire on the crowd.
Lenin then issued a secret memo ordering the most merciless suppression of the clergy possible, arguing conditions would never again be so favorable for crushing the Church’s influence for decades.
By year’s end thousands of clergy had been shot and a 1000 year old institution was driven underground by the regime that claimed to liberate the peasants who built it.
SENSITIVE CONTENT - UPDATE: Faith Williams, 57, was fatally shot Friday night around 11:15 p.m. entering a liquor store on Detroit’s east side. Her niece was shot too and remains hospitalized. The niece says they never even spoke to the shooter - no altercation, no warning, nothing.
The suspect is 15 years old and is now in custody. People who know him say he hasn’t been right since he recently lost his mother, and video from around the time of the shooting reportedly shows him holding what may be her obituary. That context matters, but it doesn’t explain gunning down two strangers who did nothing to provoke him. A woman is dead and her niece is fighting to recover, and somewhere along the way this kid needed real intervention and didn’t get it.
“Bitcoin is dead boring to me at this stage.” 👀
Kaspa’s @hashdag shares his take on Bitcoin and where Kaspa, Zcash, and Solana fit into the conversation.
With @VladCostea on @BTCTKVR S17 E36.