The Saint of the Prisons

To be adequately understood, world history must be theologically judged. Alongside all the social, political or military conflicts that history has recorded in chronicles and archives, ever since man's creation, there is another war taking place (much more important, yet invisible to the human eye): the devil's war against God. The battlefield of this war is man's heart. As a result of man's choice, recorded history emerges. The history of the Church is a history of oppression, of martyrdom for Christ. The oppression, initiated in the first century after Christ by the Roman Empire, continued afterwards by the barbarians and then by the Ottoman Empire. However, the twentieth century remains beyond doubt the most atrocious period in the history of Christianity, due to the bloodiest persecution that it had to endure: the communist oppression. From an ideological standpoint, Communism aimed to build a world without social classes or private property by claiming that the wealth of the country belongs to everyone equally. The communist ideal was an egalitarian society, led by a single political party. Communists deceptively asserted that state power belonged to the workers. In reality, power, just like all other resources of the country, was concentrated in the hands of a small group of party leaders. Many things have been said and written about Communism. Regardless of the arguments in favor of or against Communism as an ideology, its implementation will remain in history as the incarnation of Satan's presence in and among people.