oldrussia: 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.

oldrussia:

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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