Posted on 10/19/2023 10:47:59 AM PDT by algore
Russia’s central bank has halted the circulation of a new 1,000 ruble note after Orthodox priests complained that the image of a church dome lacked a cross – even though it does not have one in real life.
The bank had presented new designs of the 1,000 and 5,000 ruble notes earlier this week.
One of them featured two religious sites in the majority-Muslim Tatarstan republic: a minaret with an Islamic crescent moon and an Orthodox church with a dome that did not have a cross on it.
The Guardian view on the Russian Orthodox Church: betrayed by Putin’s patriarch Read more Both are inside the Kazan Kremlin, in Tatarstan’s capital.
The 17th-century church’s cross was removed by Bolsheviks after the 1917 revolution. The building now serves as a state museum.
But the lack of the cross quickly drew the ire of Orthodox clerics.
Pavel Ostrovsky, a priest, said on Telegram that the bill was either the result of “the stupidity of the designers” or a “deliberate provocation” by the “followers of Islam” in Tatarstan.
The celebrity priest, who has 174,000 followers on the app, said “there was no difference what the building looks like in real life” as most Russians do not know its history.
“Currently a decision was taken to stop the production of the notes,” the central bank said in a rare U-turn on Wednesday.
The influence of the Russian Orthodox church has grown significantly under President Vladimir Putin.
After the bank removed the note, the Russian Orthodox church welcomed the decision as “very correct”.
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Anyone out there still claiming Russia is just the successor to the Marxist Soviet Union?
Collector’s item? Kind of like the Chinese stamp that was pulled because the printer didn’t color Taiwan red, like mainland China was.
It’s essentially a $10 bill, though how much $10 buys in Russia is up for discussion.
Meanwhile, our $20 bill will soon be DEIed with Harriet Tubman. She was a devout Methodist all her life, trusting in God to get her through her work for freedom. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Marxist atheists to put a cross on her, or for any group of American Christians to complain because of it.
Sure. Looks like 1000 rubles is worth a bit more than ten bucks.
5,000 rubles…or a $50 bill. It used to be a $2500 bill. LOL
It’s trading at a penny right now. That’s up from .94 cents a week or so ago.
I remember when our $100 dollar bill was worth something too.
Seriously they need to start printing $500 and $1000 bills again. That way our govt could send 1/10th the number of pallets to Ukraine and Gaza.
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