Abstract:

The article shows the state policy in the first decade of a post-war period. The liberal relation of the State was shown towards the Orthodox church after the Great Patriotic War. In general, the State policy was directed to the further reduction of religious organizations, churches, pinching of the believers’ interests. Much attention was paid to the atheistic education of the younger generation and young people in the cultural and educational work.

Keywords: the Council for the Russian Orthodox Church under the Council of the Ministers of the USSR, anti-religious propaganda, religious cults and rites, religious community, priest, monk, monastery, prayer house, Church, Orthodox Church, Religion