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Article: RUSSIA'S ENDURING SIGNS OF HOPE IN OLD KIEV, CHURCH DOMES DOT THE HILLSIDES, SYMBOLS OF PURITY, OF FAITH
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 13, 1988
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Red Square and the Kremlin. Lenin statues, Lenin medals, Lenin
pictures. The Winter Palace in Leningrad and the Summer Palace in
Pushkin. Ballet and soccer. Long lines, lines and more lines.
These are some of the mental pictures you retain after visiting the
Soviet Union.
The most memorable images for me, however, are the
onion-shaped church domes piercing the skylines of villages and
cities. They are like the flickering flames of candles, silently
proclaiming a message of hope amid a pervasive atmosphere of gloom.
For some Russians, the sparkling domes symbolize spirituality,
for others a heartfelt sense of nationalism. Indeed, the
theological and political converge, even in this ...