--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com>
wrote:
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> In many a worker's home one can find similar
> evidences of this
> struggle. In one corner of the room the wife
> continues to burn candles
> before the traditional Russian ikons, or carved
> images representing
> Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and scenes from the Bible
> and the lives of the
> saints. In another place the Communist husband has
> arranged his "Lenin
> corner," strikingly and suggestively similar to the
> ikon corner in
> general idea, with the pictures of Lenin from
> childhood to death,
> portraits of other Communist leaders, and a few
> Communist books and
> pamphlets.
"Bolshevism is the Russian Orthodox form of Marxism" -- Nikolai Berdyaev. (Or something like that)
(BTW contrary to what was written somewhere else in this thread, Orthodoxy is not one church. There are several Orthodox Churches.)
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