Putin visits memorial to victims of Stalinist Great Terror: CEN 11.08.07 November 8, 2007
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| IN A SHARP about-face, President Vladimir Putin has attended a memorial service outside Moscow led by the Patriarch of the Russian Church at the sight of a mass grave of victims of the Yezhovshina, the ‘Great Terror’ of 1937.
President Putin joined Patriarch Alexy II for a ceremony at the Butovo shooting range on Oct 30, the Day of Victims of Political Repression, for the service honouring an estimated 20,000 opponents of the regime, including 1,000 priests, monks and nuns, murdered there between 1937 and 1938. Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper. |
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