A leader of a church within this country made the quip "The balm accords with the relics." In thiscountry, the radical League of Communities of the Ancient Apostolic Church supported Christiansocialism, and the League for Church Regeneration believed in a new democratic approach toepiscopacy. The Renovationist and Living Church movements in this country supported its longtimegovernment, despite the newspaper Godless being published in this country by the state-supportedLeague of (*) Militant Atheists. Two decades after the split caused by the anti-government lobbying ofPatriarch Tikhon, this country's largest religiou
A leader of a church within this country made the quip "The balm accords with the relics." In thiscountry, the radical League of Communities of the Ancient Apostolic Church supported Christiansocialism, and the League for Church Regeneration believed in a new democratic approach toepiscopacy. The Renovationist and Living Church movements in this country supported its longtimegovernment, despite the newspaper Godless being published in this country by the state-supportedLeague of (*) Militant Atheists. Two decades after the split caused by the anti-government lobbying ofPatriarch Tikhon, this country's largest religious denomination was reconciled to its government during theGreat Patriotic War. For 10 points, name this country whose policy of state atheism was effectivelyabandoned by 1947, after twenty-five years of trying to suppress the world's largest Orthodox Church.
A leader of a church within this country made the quip "The balm accords with the relics.
Soviet Union [or Sovetsky Soyuz; or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; or USSR; or CCCP; or Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik; prompt on Russia]