Angels and artillery: a cathedral to Russia's new national identity | Russia | The Guardian

"For many priests, who were young in the 1970s and 1980s and personally came up against the repressive Soviet machine, which targeted the church, they are in shock and they can't get over it," said Sergei Chapnin, a religious scholar in Moscow. "This is not really an Orthodox cathedral, it's a cathedral of our new post-Soviet civil religion," he added.

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