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The Pope promoted Poland's cause as well as the cause of Christians behind the Iron Curtain on an international level, to the great discomfort of the communist governments in the Warsaw Pact. [35] The church in Poland played a key role in the revolution against the regime in the 1980s and provided symbols (the Black Madonna , the suffering ...
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After ostensibly attaining the "legal right" to the Orthodox Church, the government of the Second Polish Republic launched the destruction of Ukrainian Orthodox Churches in the Kholm and Pidliashia regions in late June 1938. The auxiliary forces mobilized to assist with the operation included Polish state policemen, and Polish workers. [1]
Persecution of Christians in Warsaw Pact countries; Religion in Poland; Anti-religious campaign of Communist Romania; USSR anti-religious campaign (1921–1928) USSR anti-religious campaign (1928–1941) USSR anti-religious campaign (1958–1964) USSR anti-religious campaign (1970s–1987)
The eastern part of Poland has a long history of Catholic–Orthodox rivalry. [29] The Roman Catholic clergy in the Chełm region in Poland was unambiguously anti-Orthodox in the interwar period. [30] [31] [32] Ukraine, which has been a religious borderland, has a long history of religious conflict. [33]
St. Lawrence's Church in Warsaw, was in 1834 changed into an Orthodox church named for Our Lady of Vladimir, and in 1916 became a Catholic church once again. According to estimates by the Ministry in 1914, 630 Orthodox churches operated in Polish lands located in former Eastern Catholic premises and 240 were formerly Roman Catholic churches.
The Nazi plan for Poland included the destruction of the Polish nation, which required attacking the Polish Church, particularly in areas annexed to Germany. [9] Biographer Ian Kershaw said in the scheme for the Germanization of Central and Eastern Europe, that Hitler had made it clear there would be "no place in this utopia for the Christian Churches".
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