The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia urges to remove Lenin’s body from the Red Square

Natalya Mihailova | 19 June 2017
New York, June 19, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia urges to bid farewell to the symbols of militant atheism and remove Lenin's body from the Red Square.
The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia urges to remove Lenin’s body from the Red Square
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“We call for the removal of the body from the central square of the nation of the one whose name is connected with the establishment of the militant atheist state, which led to the sacrifice of millions of lives to its ideology”, the ROCOR Council of Bishops says in its message cited by its press service.

The authors of the document urges “to rid ourselves of the old glorification of murderers by naming cities and towns after them, streets and plazas, train stations and parks.”

They reminded that this year we remember the hundredth anniversary of the events of 1917; the anniversary of the restoration of the patriarchate and the tenth anniversary of the reestablishment of unity within the Russian Church.

The session of the ROCOR council in Munich ended with great consecration of the cathedral dedicated to new martyrs who died for faith in Soviet years. Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine and First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Metropolitan Hilarion consecrated the church.

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