The Christ the Saviour Cathedral was the largest Orthodox church in existence and largest ever built. On 5 December 1931, by order of Stalin’s minister Kaganovich, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was dynamited and reduced to rubble.
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:( though I am an atheist I despise the destructions of places of worship cause I admire the beautiful architecture and...