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Christianity became official religion in Kievan Rus' (predecessor of modern Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine) in 988:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus'

Map of Kievan...

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He is crying actually. :mosking: Just imagine - some unknown bearded guy with a smell of olibanum is putting him (he was only one y.o., it was his first birthday) into the barrel of water.


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Well, in the 70s as far as I know no one was punished for their believes or so but the logic of keeping the faith in secret was simple: to make a career in USSR one must be a member of communist...

Well, "nobody wanted" isn't a proper word. Better to say it wasn't allowed to worship there. During 30s one can be put in GULAG for that and even death punished. At the war years Stalin had to...

Here is the picture I'v made in front of my home building (located 50 km east from Moscow) at the first day of this winter:

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/148/dsc00041gv.jpg

Thank God that...