130,000 Christians Martyred During Red Terror - Russians Mourn Them in October
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Bishops and priests were crucified on church doors, hanged, burned, drowned in ice-holes, smothered with their sacred vestments, and buried alive. There have been cases when a priest was first made to watch his wife and children murdered, and then was tortured and executed . . .
These actions done by both officials and the people were not done in a spirt of anti-religion or triumph of atheism, but because the Church was among the largest landowners in Czarist Russia and among the most ruthless of exploiters. Vilifying the Revolution without blaming the culprits is distorting the real history of events. In effect, these 'church' people were murdered because of a very 'pissed off peasantry', and no matter how holy, they had violated the most basic precepts of Christianity.