Sorry fella the first time I visited Russia was 1995 and you? I was more than ten years married to a Russian woman don’t tell me BS. No, the Orthodox Church was not banned just the muscovion patriarchy with is nothing else as the prolonged arm of Russian imperialism, btw. Run by a KGB mate of Putin
To answer first question no never visited there. Not likely to at my age now. I did have a good friend from there in grade school, spent time with the family and went with them to their church (Russian orthodox) several times.
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On behalf of the Soviet secret services, the KGB, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, was working, according to the Swiss press. According to the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper, the h...