Editing Inochentism (section)

===Soviet takeover and Bessarabian survival===
Inochenție was however freed following the [[February Revolution]] of 1917 and returned to Balta, reunifying the movement which had been divided by schismatic infighting during his absence.<ref name="Clay259"/> Together with several hundreds followers, mainly female and [[Romanian language|Romanian-speaking]], he founded a [[Communes of Romania|commune]] in [[Ananiv]] raion. The commune (named ''Rai'' or ''Raiu'', "paradise"), was reportedly designed by a [[Bessarabia Germans|Bessarabian German]], and divided along three streets. It covered some 45 hectares, including a vineyard, orchard and garden, a deep pond used in baptism, a wooden church which could hold 600, a hostel and an inner citadel with a tower.<ref>Sanielevici, pp. 108–111.</ref> Also featured was an intricate underground complex of galleries: from it, Inochenție would "ascend to heaven" every evening. These stone "caves" also held private rooms or prayer cells, and were supposedly the most attractive part of the religious complex.<ref>Sanielevici, pp. 109–110.</ref> Inochenție died only months later, toward the end of 1917.<ref name="Clay259"/>

Sources attest that, around 1918, the commune was in the care of Simeon Levizor (Inochenție's brother), assisted in this task by fellow "[[Apostles]]" Iacob of [[Dubăsari]] and Ivan of [[Cosăuți]].<ref>Sanielevici, p. 110.</ref> On September 14, 1920, the monastery was forcefully closed by the [[Bolshevik]]s, while Inochenție's family and the leaders of the Inochentists being either killed or arrested and tried in [[Odesa]].<ref>Clay, p.259</ref> The ''Rai'' establishment continued to function in the 1920s, when Ananiv was included in the [[Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]]. The new Soviet administration tried to transform it into a ''[[kolkhoz]]''<ref name="king"/> named "From Darkness to Light".<ref name="Kolarz"/> However, in 1930, the Soviet anti-religious newspaper ''[[Bezbozhnik (magazine)|Bezbozhnik]]'' announced that Inochentism had been stamped out of Soviet Moldavia, noting that the sect was still active in [[Union of Bessarabia with Romania|Romanian Bessarabia]].<ref name="Kolarz"/> According to one Romanian account of the mid-1920s, the Inochentists were even making converts in the west and south, among peasants from the "[[Romanian Old Kingdom|Old Kingdom]]".<ref name="hs112">Sanielevici, p. 112.</ref> By the 1940s, the estimated total of Romanian Inochentists was 2,000.<ref>Deletant, p. 187; Ioanid, p. 293.</ref> The surviving Inochentist sections in Soviet lands suffered during the [[Great Purge]]: all the Inochentist nuns still living at ''Rai'' were put to death by the [[NKVD]].<ref>{{in lang|ro}} [[Nicolae Dabija (politician)|Nicolae Dabija]], [http://www.literaturasiarta.md/public/2012ro_Nr_24.pdf "Katyn-uri basarabene"], in ''[[Literatura și Arta]]'', Nr. 24/2010, p. 1.</ref>

In Romanian territories, the movement became the subject of renewed media and political interest, while coming into conflict with the prevalent [[Romanian Orthodox Church]]. The new keepers of Inochentist doctrines, described as by "charlatans" by Clark,<ref name="clark"/> were self-appointed [[patriarch]]s, deemed incarnations of the Holy Spirit or [[Second Coming of Christ|Second Comings of Christ]].<ref name="hs101-105">Sanielevici, pp. 101–105.</ref> The government perceived the movement as "harmful" for Romanian society and in contradiction with public order, so, in 1925, the Inochentist church was officially banned.<ref>Tănase, p. 35.</ref> In 1926, a church leader was arrested by Romanian authorities as he tried to set up a new congregation in [[Budești, Chișinău|Budești]].<ref name="clark"/>