CHANGE THE RELIGIOUS POLICY OF THE SOVIET STATE DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR: REALITY AND MYTHS

The paper analyzes the internal and external factors that caused the change of
religious policy of the Soviet state during the Great Patriotic War. The article also
critically examined the myths that are spreading some modern ecclesiastical and
scientific and popular publications about the causes of the transformation of statechurch
relations in 1941–1945 years