Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known for over a century now by his Bolshevik nom-de-guerre, Lenin, was one of history\u2019s greatest mass murderers. In the course of his ruthless efforts to impose communism on Russia and its neighbors through brutal force, terror, and extra-judicial homicides in the millions, he became one of the greatest persecutors of the Christian Church in two millennia. Lenin\u2019s minions killed more Christians in a slow week than the last of the great Roman persecutors, Diocletian, did in years. All this is thoroughly documented\u201d\u201dto the point where Russian Orthodoxy considers many of Lenin\u2019s victims as martyrs and saints and celebrates their feasts in its liturgical calendar.<\/p>\n
And yet today\u2019s Russian Orthodox leadership cannot bring itself to say that this monster\u2019s mummified corpse should cease, immediately, being an object of curiosity or veneration?<\/p>\n