From: "Phil Payne" 

> You don't talk at all of the more then 500 churches that were ripped down
> in Moscow. They kept a few for show and used them to store tractors and at
> times animals.  I explained to my Russian teacher today your statements
> and she also says you are full of shit.  Of course in a much nicer Russian
> way.  As she told me, you got to see exactly what they wanted you to see.

There are churches being ripped down all over the UK right now - one in
Sheffield only this week.

No religious oppression, though.  In the USSR, most of it went out
gradually after Stalin - when it got to Gorbechov they simply had too many
other things on their plate.

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