Thematic short films
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TRL Opium for the People ENPUB
On May 1, 1919, Lenin sent Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Extraordinary Commission, the following order: "...we must put an end to priests and religions as soon as possible. Priests shall be ...
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TRW Unjust Justice ENPUB
Last century was for Russia a century of revolutionary storms, of the greatest destruction and of one civil and two world wars, that is the very bloodiest in its history, in an unsuccessful attempt ...
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TRW Faith in the Camp ENPUB
Among the victims of the Soviet repressions, there were many clergy members, and there was a certain logic to this: the moral boundaries set forth by religious commandments hindered the atheistic ...
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TRL Soviet Families ENPUB
Coming to power, the Communists launched a complete war against the family and religion, the foundations of any society. The very understanding of family was declared “bourgeois”, that is a form of repression of individuals' personality. In the '20s, Soviet legislation legalized abortions, made divorces easier and easier, affirmed the principle of free love and the public discussion of “the gender question”. The enormous number of neglected children and the spreading of venereal diseases obliged the government to reject the idea of sexual revolution by the mid-1930s, and the concept of a stable family was once again valued.