On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 06:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Chris Doss
<lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> writes:
> Amusingly enough, for a funny-looking guy with a goofy-sounding
> accent.
>
> If you look at the Moscow Patriarchate's website, you will see them
> be rather soft on Stalin. It's Khrushchev who is the main target of
> their ire.
And rightly so from their perspective, since it was Khruschchev who renewed the campaign against religion and in favor of militant atheism in the 1960s. Just as his liberalizations represented a break with Stalin's policies, so did his antireligious campaign.
Jim F.
>
> Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
>
>
> In WW II, Stalin made lots of concessions to old fashion
> Russian nationalism. That's when he relaxed his
> restrictions on the churches, particularly the Russian
> Orthodox, permitting them to reopen many
> churches.
>
>
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