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Alexander Yakovlev claims in "A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia" that 110,200 Orthodox priests were shot in 1937-1941 in the USSR. He provides no source. I was a bit uncertain about this, since in the entire world in 1940 there were only ~400,000 catholic priests. Is this accurate?

by /u/bobbiner in /r/AskHistorians

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