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Moscow's Butovo shooting range unites Christians in joy of resurrection

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To the uninitiated, there is nothing particularly spiritual about the neglected Butovo region in the south of Moscow. But there are few places where Chrisitanity’s defining miracle can be felt as deeply than at the region’s church, which was literally built on the bones of victims of Stalin’s terror. As here at Butovo shooting range, or as it also called Russian Golgotha, tens of thousands of people were shot by Stalin’s secret police for what was called then anti-Soviet conspiracy.

To the uninitiated, there is nothing particularly spiritual about the neglected Butovo region in the south of Moscow. But there are few places where Chrisitanity’s defining miracle can be felt as deeply than at the region’s church, which was literally built on the bones of victims of Stalin’s terror. As here at Butovo shooting range, or as it also called Russian Golgotha, tens of thousands of people were shot by Stalin’s secret police for what was called then anti-Soviet conspiracy.

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