The term 'Council Religious' can be summarized by two crossword solutions: SOVIET (6 letters) and Trent (5 letters). The SOVIET Union was a Marxist-Leninist state that existed from 1922 to 1991. It was a single-party state governed by the Communist Party, with Moscow as its capital. The Council for Religious Affairs was an agency of the SOVIET government that regulated religious life in the SOVIET Union. The Council of Trent was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church held in Trento, Italy, from 1545 to 1563. It was convened to address the challenges posed by the Protestant Reformation and to define the doctrines of the Catholic Church. The Council of Trent issued decrees on reform, clarified doctrine, and established the basis for the Counter-Reformation.