"Acceleration" and "Perestroika". 1986-1988. The debunking of a socialist myth July 27, 2022, Natalia Eliseeva The position of the church in the conditions of publicity the party weakened the traditional control of the party over the church. This was due not so much with the abandonment of atheism as one of the postulates of communist ideology, but with the intention to demonstrate the commitment of democratic freedoms, among which the freedom of religion did not seem so dangerous.