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The Russian Orthodox Church marked the 70th anniversary of the bloody peak of Josef Stalin's terror with a procession that began from a remote northern island archipelago that became the prison camp immortalized in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's world-famous book, The Gulag Archipelago
Christian Century, Sept 4, 2007
The Russian Orthodox Church marked the 70th anniversary of the bloody peak of Josef Stalin's terror with a procession that began from a remote northern island archipelago that became the prison camp immortalized in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's world-famous book, The Gulag Archipelago. The procession ended on the edge of Moscow at a former "killing field" that has now become a shrine to Soviet leader Stalin's millions of victims.
A wooden cross that accompanied the procession to Butovo, south of Moscow, where mass executions began 70 years ago was erected next to the newly built stone Church of the Resurrection and the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. Patriarch Aleksy II of the Russian Orthodox Church has referred repeatedly to the site as Russia's Golgotha. From August 1937 to October 1938 alone, at least 20,000 people are believed to have been shot and buried as "enemies of the people" in a field adjacent to the church. The field was a secret facility of the KGB until the early 1990s.
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