"Holy Russia" in Paris, the exhibition at the Louvre until May 25

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Yes, resistance to the confiscation of Church property (ie, icons, relics, crosses, salaries, bowls) were, but they were, as we would have to say spontaneous. Simply believing the Russians defended and did not want to give her.
In his book "The Red Terror in Russia" on page 103 is the paragraph: "Will we find in life and literature of description, similar to that which leads Steinberg about the incident in Szack district of Tambov province. There are people there revered Vyshinskaya icon of the Mother of God .. . They built and Rogation procession, for which the local Cheka arrested priests and the very icon of ... farmers learned about the harassment, produced by the Cheka on the icon: "spat, shuffled across the floor, and go" wall to rescue the Mother of God. "There were women , old people, kids. In his KGB opened fire with machine guns. "machine gun mowing down the ranks, and they go, can not see anything on the corpses, the wounded, climb straight ahead, his eyes terrible, mothers of the children forward, shouting:" Dear Mother, Patroness, save us, have mercy on all of you go to bed ... "

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