Statue of Stalin on the altar of the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Mary in the Martha and Mary Monastery in Moscow, 1930s. With the beginning of Stalin's "Great Turning Point" in 1929, the cathedral was equipped with a "Workers' Health Education Club" (Mossanprosvet) with services in the sanctum sanctorum. The last senior nun of the monastery, Udokia Kuzminova, was shot in 1938 for "anti-Soviet activity"; Her body was buried in a communal execution pit at the Butovo training ground (completely restored by the Soviet authorities in 1989, declared a new martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2001). In 1945, the building was transferred to the Tretyakov Gallery for art and restoration workshops, whose workers helped save the temple from final destruction. In 1992 the monastery was returned to the church. What is orthodox Stalinism?

Statue of Stalin on the altar of the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Mary in the Martha and Mary Monastery in Moscow, 1930s. With the beginning of Stalin's "Great Turning Point" in 1929, the cathedral was equipped with a "Workers' Health Education Club" (Mossanprosvet) with services in the sanctum sanctorum. The last senior nun of the monastery, Udokia Kuzminova, was shot in 1938 for "anti-Soviet activity"; Her body was buried in a communal execution pit at the Butovo training ground (completely restored by the Soviet authorities in 1989, declared a new martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2001). In 1945, the building was transferred to the Tretyakov Gallery for art and restoration workshops, whose workers helped save the temple from final destruction. In 1992 the monastery was returned to the church. What is orthodox Stalinism?