Orthodox values in the Soviet everyday life
The twentieth century went down in history of our country as the era of persecution of the faith, the construction of an atheistic society. For more than seventy years the Soviet period of the Russian Orthodox Church in connection with the hard line of state power was almost outside the social life. In the Soviet society a worldview was formed, in which officially there was no place for the Church. Man had to abandon completely the religious factor in life. In practice, the Church as the guardian of civilization foundations could not be completely excluded from the public life. Culture, traditions, moral norms were built on deep foundations of the Orthodox. Soviet films, books, songs were often filled with Christian content. A lot of people keep the faith despite harsh administrative harassment of the Church, the clergy and the faithful. the symptoms of the Orthodox religion were often seen in those sectors of the society which from the point of view of the official ideology, had to be abolished in the first place, that is, among the communists and the Soviet officials.