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The Bolsheviks and Their Policies
Priests were typically given the most degrading work, intentionally humiliating. They'd be forced to clean manure from pigstides and stables by hand while wearing their religious vestments. A bishop by the name of Leonthius was murdered, along with most of the clergymen in his diocese. Another priest named Makovsky was murdered in Kharkiv for allegedly criticizing the communists. When his wife arrived to retrieve his body, the secret police killed her by chopping off her arms and driving a rod through her breasts.