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Islam, Judaism, etc. The CRA has been described as a go-between for religious denominations and the Soviet state. It was tasked with overseeing execution of legislation pertaining to religious "cults." Officially, the CRA had "no part to play" in promoting atheism or serving as the means for the party's anti-religious campaigns; however, one author found during the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the archives were generally more open than before, that there is evidence to the contrary. He cites an example of the CRA joining with another state agency, The
Institute of Scientific Atheism, in combating the resurgence of Ukrainian Catholic activists.
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archives show that the over 20 years of CRA activity show a vast interference in religious affairs, while not having the statutory authority to do so. Through these operations of the CRA, the
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The CRA statute organizes the council as being attached to the USSR Council of
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to "unmask the reactionary content of the political and social conceptions of the
Vatican, papal encyclical and other programmatic Vatican documents with the subsequent aim of distributing these materials among the Soviet and foreign mass media. The CRA added a Catholic Department following the
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The CRA adopted and continued many of the activities of its predecessors. For example, By the 1960s, the CAROC had already been interfering in the administration of the
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era, even though the CRA was not created until after his deposition. Letters from individual parishes express their frustration and alarm at a wave of new attacks starting in 1959, before the CRA was formed. Concerns came from both non-Orthodox and
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