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Church and State

 
In order to improve morale during WW2, Stalin brought back a "Stalin'd up!" version of the Orthodox Church which had been hitherto crushed by official Soviet policy. And why not? In 1942 Russia, all things go better with Stalin!
I really dig this style and the medieval shout outs. I'm not sure what book Stalin is selling here, since I don't think the Bible made it back into this brief version of the Church (Khrushchev later crushed it once again). Might be a blank journal so you can record your most patriotic thoughts about how awesome Stalin is.
Stalin cares. House visits for the grieving widows of the war. A Saint, I tells ya!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

IN the name of Jesus christ i commend you to stop right now.