Posted on 03/07/2019 5:25:06 PM PST by marshmallow
On Cross Hill in Vladivostok, where the soviets had planned to erect a statue of Lenin, the figure of Christ will soon stand tall.
The new statue will be 223 ft. high, blessing all the ships that sail in and out of Russia from the city, reports primamedia.ru. The designers also proposed to build a chapel in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh next to the statue, but it was ultimately decided that it would be better to build a chapel on the next hill.
The famous statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil stands 125 ft. tall.
In 1972, the communist government ordered a statue of Lenin to be built on the same hill, with the height of a 10-story building. A memorial stone and placard were installed that year, though the statue never ended up being erected, and in 1990, the regional government ordered the layout to be dismantled.
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Russian Christianity has reemerged led by Putin. They are more Christian now than we are.
I wonder if you could even get planning permission and funding to erect something like this in the USA ?
(Transgender Jesus does not count)
If you had told me 30 years ago that Russia would be erecting statues of Christ and America would be removing all public crosses, I’d have thought you were nuts.
Russia, as a Christian Nation, is why the satanic democrat party is reeling against Russia. For 50 year Russian communism was the wet dream of Democrats . Loved them. They didn’t care if Stalin murdered 10 million in Ukraine ( far far more than the Jews in Europe) They averted their gaze to the communist butchers of free peoples in the Baltic’s, confiscating their lives and property for the communist elites but NOW with Christianity RULING in Russian they HATE them.!!And Trump “colluded “ with then to steal the election from their criminal bitch, Hillary.
My paternal grandparents came to the U.S. from Ukraine before WWI. That fact and this story make me wonder if there are similar statues of Christ in Kiev, Kharkov, and Odessa.
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In the Seattle area known as Fremont, there’s a statue of Lenin.
Russian Church opens about 1,000 new parishes every year
Must be all those Rosaries us Catholic school kids were saying for "The Conversion of Russia" 60 years ago....
Up is Down, Right is Left. It's like we've entered Bizarro-World.
We entered bizarre world in about 2010. They’ve only gotten a bit bolder.
Wonderful. This is a completely untold story. Many American Christians had so much evangelical effluence there but this was 100% led and permitted by Vladimir putin in a quiet way. He is a devote believer in Christ and the Russian Orthodox Church. LOoK THAT UP!!
If you think stuff like this happens without Putin’s approval, you really don’t know what’s going on.
It’s sad. America has spent itself to exhaustion trying to defeat evil and promote American exceptionalism and we have forsaken ourselves as we are now rotting on the vine.
This is the largest statue in the world. It's 597 feet high.
This is the largest statue in the world. It's 597 feet high.
Kristos anesti
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