Religious Assimilation: Forced Conversion to the Metropole's Religion

As part of religious assimilation, aggressors may apply physical, administrative, or economic coercion to convert members of the colonized society to the colonizer's confession. Depriving the local population of freedom of religion under threat of repression, deprivation of rights, or confiscation of property ensures the accelerated erasure of cultural and religious boundaries.

ID: T0116.001
Sub-technique of:  T0116
Tactic: Persistence
People: Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
C0059 Liquidation of the Greek Catholic Church (1839)

Forcible transfer of the Uniate faithful of the Right Bank into subordination to the loyal Moscow Patriarchate for the spiritual assimilation of the population[1].

S0011 Moscow Patriarchate

Forcible transfer of the Uniate faithful of the Right Bank into subordination to the loyal Moscow Patriarchate for the spiritual assimilation of the population[1].

G0009 Russian Empire

Forcible transfer of the Uniate faithful of the Right Bank into subordination to the loyal Moscow Patriarchate for the spiritual assimilation of the population[1].

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