The Soviet State, the USSR was declared to be “religion free” and atheistic. Church were demolished, the priests were hunted down (especially in the beginning). And all the results of the development of the country were attributed to materialistic scientific research. Now things changed. Let’s see how.
When the first space ships went into space these sort of posters were popular – “Grandmother was religious, but science bright light opened us new horizons”, with a woman throwing old icons into the trash.
Normally the great Soviet space exploration pioneers portraits were posted on the walls of the first Soviet space station and later on ISS. Korolev, space rockets constructor, Gagarin – first cosmonaut – etc. Look on the wall behind the guy those are their faces.
But gradually things were changing. The Gagarin and Korolev still there but new gold colored pictures appeared around.
Until on the most recent photos no more old heroes on the wall, just the church icons. And then things went more and more extreme:
Blessings of the space ships before start.
Blessing hard the next cosmic crew members:
Sometimes too hard:
Designing space suits for priests only:
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