--- Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote: BTW, Pugliese, I think that anarchists did the right thing by burning down those churches during the Spanish Revolution. After centuries of religious oppression, the payback was way overdue.
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Doesn't burning the churches of the country's dominant religion strike you, um, a bit undemocratic?
God knows it was in part the Bolsheviks' policies toward Islam, Orthodoxy and Buddhism that caused a lot of people in the USSR (Ukrainians, Chechens, Tatars, Kalmyks etc.) to collaborate with the Nazis. That's why there were the Stalinist deportations afterward. Bolsheviks destroyed every Buddhist temple in Kalmykia and almost every mosque in the Caucasus. Kalmyks and Muslim Caucasians didn't like that and thought the Nazis would give them more religious freedom.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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