@Rothmus
The Bolsheviks understood that defeating armies was never enough to destroy a civilization. So they went straight for the art, the architecture, the music, and the sacred liturgies of the Orthodox Church because they knew you cannot kill a civilization by force alone and you have to destroy the living expressions of its soul. They burned the paintings, demolished the cathedrals, and silenced the hymns that had carried Russian Christianity across a thousand years and they did it deliberately so the old faith would have nowhere left to live and their new tyranny could finally conquer what remained.