18 events with tag "Soviet Union"
1917
ID: 1259
Soviet Union implements Darwinian materialism; approximately 62 million died from genocide and government mass murder
ID: 1259
1918
ID: 1266
Spring: Open campaign of terror launched against all religions in Soviet Russia
ID: 1266
1918
ID: 1267
Summer: 47 clergymen shot, drowned, or axed to death in Yekaterinburg diocese alone
ID: 1267
1919
ID: 1277
December 25, 1919
Lenin orders execution of Christmas celebrants: 'those who do not show up for work because of Nikola are shot'
ID: 1277
1920
ID: 1288
October 1920
Lenin tells Russian Young Communist League: 'We do not believe in God... Our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the proletariat's class struggle.'
ID: 1288
1921
ID: 1304
Moscow church trials; 11 of 17 Orthodox officials ordered executed (1921-1922)
ID: 1304
1922
ID: 1309
Treaty of Rapallo - Secret German-Soviet military cooperation begins, circumventing Versailles restrictions
ID: 1309
1922
ID: 1310
November 1922
Bolsheviks seize 828,275 pounds of silver, 1,220 pounds of gold, 35,670 diamonds from churches
ID: 1310
1932
ID: 1394
May 15, 1932
Stalin announces Five-Year Plan of Atheism with goal for May Day 1937: 'Not a single house of prayer shall remain in the USSR'
ID: 1394
1934
ID: 1423
Earl Browder states: 'Above all, we arm ourselves with the political weapons forged by the victorious Communist Party of the Soviet Union'
ID: 1423
1957
ID: 1717
Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, creating national panic about falling behind
ID: 1717
1957
ID: 1728
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, spurring aerospace materials development
ID: 1728
1959
ID: 1754
Oswald 'defects' to Soviet Union - Claims to have radar secrets from U-2 program
ID: 1754
1960
ID: 1757
Francis Gary Powers U-2 shot down over USSR - Same base where Oswald served
ID: 1757
1970
ID: 1877
Mid-1970s: Of Moscow's 657 churches in 1917, only 46 still held services
ID: 1877
1972
ID: 1895
BCCI founded; CDC sold advanced computer to Soviet Union
ID: 1895
1991
ID: 2085
Soviet Union dissolves - German strategy of US-Soviet antagonism succeeds completely
ID: 2085
1991
ID: 2093
Soviet Union falls - Fatima prophecy fulfilled - 'Russia will be converted'
ID: 2093