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In [[architecture]], a pompous [[Stalinist Empire Style]], exemplified by the seven skyscrapers of Moscow, replaced the [[constructivism]] of the 1920's. An amusing anecdote has it that the Moskva Hotel in Moscow was built with mismatching side-wings because Stalin had signed off both of the two proposals submitted.
The [[Russian Orthodox Church]] and other religions were persecuted with vigour. By 1939 active parishes numbered in the low hundreds (1917: 54,000), many churches had been levelled, and tens of thousands of priests, monks, and nuns dead or imprisoned. The Church was, however, revived during WWII as a patriotic organisation: many parishes were reactivated until a further round of suppression in Khruschev's time. The Church Synod's recognition of the Soviet government and of Stalin personally gave grounds for a schism with the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]] that remains not fully healed to the present day.
=== Purges and deportations ===
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