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“...the Russian church had lost in its first decade of 'freedom' what Soviet believers had managed to hold on to under communisn for most…

— Nik Ripkin

“I did see, however, what the Russian church had lost in its first decade of "freedom." Under communism, the church had found a way…

— Nik Ripken

“Listen, Parfyon, a few moments ago you asked me a question, and this is my answer: the essence of religious feeling has nothing to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“By sanctifying History in order to discredit God, Marxism has merely rendered Him more peculiar and more haunting. You can stifle every impulse in…

— E. M. Cioran

“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Regardless of their leaders' decisions, nation-states-their bureaucratic reach augmented by the increasingly centralized orchestration of tax revenues, industrial and communications technologies, military power, and…

— Brad S. Gregory

“I suddenly realised that the devout Russian people no longer needed priests to pray them into heaven. On earth they were building a kingdom…

— John Reed

“everyone is a russian communist”

— h

“The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“But in the 17th century Russian Orthodoxy was gravely weakened by an internal schism. In the 18th, the country was shaken by Peter's forcibly…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .

— Vladimir Putin