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Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union

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  • The article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
  • This article is relevant to our course because they both fall under the Soviet repressions and how the Soviet state dealt with groups perceived as threats to the status quo. The Soviet anti-religious repressions during the Stalinist era overlapped with the Holodomor when the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church faced intense persecution.
  • The article's content is relevant to the topic.
  • The article is neutral, however some sources may not be reliable. There is a lack of citations in multiple places, a self-published book used as a reference, and sections that largely rely on one source.
  • The article focuses largely on Soviet Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church, despite the title referring to the Soviet Union as a whole and Christianity in general. There is a lack of information on other republics, such as Ukraine, and other Orthodox churches, as well as Catholic, Greek Catholic, and Protestant churches.
  • The article says nothing about the Great Famine period.
  • The article would benefit from further subdivision within its sections.
  • The users that have written on the talk page are concerned with the reliability of the sources, specifically with the alleged number of victims.