Russian Orthodox faithful prevented the police from confiscating icons from St. Andrew's Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
Communist authorities subsequently turned the church over to the Soviet-sponsored Renovationist Church that promoted a pro-Communist Orthodox body which originally been a post Russian Revolution reform movement with in the Russian Orthodox Church, but which was taken over by the Communist infiltration. It received Communist backing at first, but was ultimately repressed, just as the Russian Orthodox Church was. It never received the support of the Russian faithful, and it passed away after World War Two. Almost all of its priests returned to the Orthodox Church after Stalin stopped the strict oppression of it during World War Two.
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