The Catholic Church in Russia During the Cold War

The number of catholics in russia was quite small, but lenin went after them also. He insisted that the churches turn over their sacred vessels, like chalices, to be melted down and sold off for the purpose of famine relief. And i guess it was pope benedict the fifteenth at the time said, we do not want you to do this to the sacred vessels. So there are a number of bishops who are arrested,. priests mysteriously disappearing, and all these kinds of things going on. Throughout the twentieth century in places where the communists have sway.