Re: In today's news...
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Apparently the Russian Orthodox Church has offered this calendar for about $6, as "an excellent gift for veterans and history buffs," with
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who
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(which Nikita Khrushchev would later replace with a swimming pool),
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in initial collectivization efforts, and signed off on
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as part of his Great Purge of the Soviet Union. He also had a
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when he realized that Russian nationalism (and religious sentiment) would boost morale and help the war effort during the Great Patriotic War against Hitler.
One
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: "The link between the Moscow Patriarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church and Stalin remains close to sacred."
Somehow the Russian Orthodox Church is surprised to find itself under criticism.