Why are there so few religious people there?

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>>3282669

>>3282669
>>3282685
https://youtu.be/PFtjg2KSfHM

>>3282669
/his/ is not /pol/ with dates

>>3282669
because pr*testantism

>>3282669
Soviet rule was actively working to abolish religion, especially lutheranism.

Churches were nationalized (some closed), printing/exporting/selling of bibles and other religious literature was banned from 1946 to 1982, religious people were mocked in press, goverment pretty much controlled the appointments of the clergy, School of Theology and Religious Studies in the University of Tartu was banned etc.

t. Estonian

>>3282907
Religion is a humanity, lad.

>>3282905
>nearly half of a two-minute video is credits

What the fuck are you doing

Actually Wikipedia has a better paragraph on it:

>With the Soviet occupation and the implementation of anti-Christian legislation, the church lost over two thirds of its clergy. Work with children, youth, publishing, and so on, was banned, church property was nationalized, and the Faculty of Theology was closed."[15] Aldis Purs, a professor of history at the University of Toronto writes that in Estonia, as well as Latvia, some evangelical Christian clergy attempted to resist the Soviet policy of state atheism by engaging in anti-regime activities such as Bible smuggling.[16] The text titled World and Its Peoples: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, published by the Marshall Cavendish, states that in addition to the Soviet antireligious campaign in Estonia, which mandated the confiscation of church property and deportation of theologians to Siberia, many "churches were destroyed in the German occupation of Estonia, from 1941 through 1944, and in World War II (1939-1945)".[4]

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>Buildings and land used by the church were nationalised in 1940 after the Republic of Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union; congregations had to pay an exorbitant rent for them. Despite the general anti-church activities, the situation of churches and congregations in Soviet Estonia varied. The two biggest confessions, the Lutheran and Orthodox, fared much better than others. Church organisations and most congregations of these two were allowed to continue, although everything was rigorously controlled. Both were strongly influenced by the KGB, as the agents of the latter had infiltrated into the congregations. The authorities were harsher on smaller confessions, such as the Evangelical Baptists, Methodists and others, closing down congregations or forcing them to unite. The activity of some churches was stopped altogether, for example the Jehovah’s Witnesses who openly declared the unlawfulness of the Soviet power, and they were repressed on the basis of their religion.

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>At the same time the authorities tried to diminish the role of church in society by atheist propaganda and promoting various secular customs. Christmas was replaced by New Year’s holidays, where some customs imitated the traditions associated with Christmas. In order to suppress Christian confirmation, young people were invited to spend summer days, together, which took place for the first time in 1957. In the following years other substitute rituals were introduced: secular memorial days of the dead became quite popular in Estonia. Secular burials and weddings were made grander and more festive. Church funeral services were still quite regular throughout the Soviet period.

>>3282964
>What the fuck are you doing
Not watching the credits

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>The aim of atheist propaganda, especially vigorous from the late 1950s onwards, was to evoke a hostile or at least indifferent attitude in society towards the church and religion. It was not unsuccessful with the younger generation. Depending on local circumstances and authorities, younger people who observed religious traditions with their parents (especially those belonging to the Komsomol) could well be persecuted at work or at school by their bosses or teachers. More atheist publications and articles in the press were published. By the 1960s the church had lost its traditional moral and balancing role in the daily lives of Estonians.

Source: http://www.estonica.org/en/Church_in_Soviet_Estonia/

>>3282944
>>3282994
>>3283000
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>>3283022
nice dubs, but Russia went through the same thing and is still more religious than Estonia so that doesn't really explain it.

>>3283075
Russians are dumb

>undergo harsh Nazi occupation, followed by getting absorbed into the USSR and being occupied for half a century
it will break anyones spirits

>>3283198
>>3283075
Am russian can confirm
Also Putin's nationalism ties into the old Christian Slav ideals