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Bishop Ambrose of Khabarovsk has provided us with some instructive anecdotes from the Soviet past.

Once the Soviet minister of education Lunacharsky and the pro-Soviet renovationist heretic Vvedensky were having a public debate. Lunacharsky said: “I came from the apes, but this man [Vvedensky] declares that he was created in the image and likeness of God. But look what progress I have made by comparison with the apes, and how this man has been degraded by comparison with God!”

Again, there was an old woman who handed in a note for the commemoration of “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”. But the priest did not want to commemorate him – a clearly anti-Soviet act. The old woman complained: “I’m paying money, and you are not commemorating this man. You know: I’m a communist from such-and-such a year…” But the priest found a ready reply, quoting from a well-known Soviet hymn: “Lenin lived. Lenin is alive. Lenin will live. So he must not be commemorated among the reposed.”

(Via Vladimir Moss, from the Live Journal of Nun Xenia (Mitrenina))