ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at only one aspect of the larger issue, contending that the Cold War never ended. The Cold War developed quickly, settling by the early 1950s into a pattern of hard polarity. The sudden disappearance of major Russian cities would have brought the Cold War to a conclusion before it ever really started. The pressure on Russian religious communities was ramped up in 1961. The primary target was the Russian Orthodox Church, the spiritual heart of Russian society. The influx of Russian churches and their KGB compatriots changed the Assembly's voting pattern and enforced a far more rigid control of Soviet Bloc churchmen than was possible in Amsterdam. Active Measures campaigns were many and varied, but by the 1970s they had taken on the same deadening sameness that was the hallmark of Soviet life. Active Measures were the ultimate creature of the Soviet system.
