War and faith in Russia and the former Soviet Union
Three decades after the fall of the USSR, work continues to document people's stories of Russian religious persecution
More than 30 years after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, former Soviet states are still suffering the effects of the war against religion, says one of the founders of an organization formed to record testimonies of the victims of Soviet oppression.
Elena Zhemkova helped found Memorial in Moscow in 1987, before the dissolution of the USSR. Over …