In December, the Soviet Union began a comprehensive ideological rectification from top to bottom.
Starting with government workers at every level, people studied progressive thought anew and broke down the outdated notions in their heads.
At the same time, the KGB conducted an investigation into key figures who opposed the National Laboratory Plan.
With the help of the wizards, no one could hide their secrets, and under an investigation of this degree, no one could pass for a saint either.
A pile of vile crimes was made public, the chief offenders were arrested one after another, and the media trumpeted it widely.
Very soon, the voices of opposition died down.
As for the so-called "manifestation" incidents that kept occurring, the state dispatched special action teams. First, through church records, they gathered the locations of the "manifestations" and information on the people involved. Then the special action teams went deep into each scene and took away the "manifestation" portraits, along with every image of the Virgin they could collect, for "research."
Meanwhile, in order to rectify the chaos of religion at home, the Soviet Union established the Religious Affairs Bureau and promulgated a new law: the Religious Affairs Management Act.
Its contents included:
1. No government worker—officials and employees at all levels of government departments, personnel in the judiciary, the military, and other organs—was permitted to believe in any religion.
2. All churches and other religious venues had to apply for registration with the local government within three months. Religious venues that did not apply for registration would be deemed illegal and immediately banned.
3. No hierarchical relationship would exist between any venues. Clergy would be selected by the religious institution within that venue, and no individual or organization was permitted to appoint clergy to another venue. Violators would be banned.