--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This also reminds me that, when I spent three weeks > in Russia in 1969 at the height of the Cold War, > and Russia was definitely a police state, most of > the churches were open to the public and religious > services were plentiful in Moscow, St Petersburgh > (Leningrad then) and Kiev among the larger cities. > Local Russians seemed free to attend services and > students I spoke to seemed able to reconcile > their belief in communism with belief in Orthodox > Christianity. > Mario observes: > Goanetters should read "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and "Fear No Evil - The Classic Memoir of One Man's Triumph over a Police State." by Natan Sharansky to see whether citizens of the old Soviet Union really reconciled religion with communism, or not. BTW, both these authors spent more than three weeks in Russia in 1969. > >
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