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Patriarch Kirill Calls USSR 'Great Country' Disintegrated Due to Loss of Spiritual Roots

25.05.2011, 13:27

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow called to remember one’s spiritual, cultural and historic roots, and called the Soviet Union a great country, which disintegrated in a few days due to the destruction of these roots.

 of Moscow called to remember one’s spiritual, cultural and historic roots, and called the Soviet Union a great country, which disintegrated in a few days due to the destruction of these roots. He made his speech at the ceremony of opening of the Days of Slavic Written language and Culture in Moscow on May 24.

The hierarch compared the nation with an old tree that is destroyed if “the trunk is rotten and divides the tree from its roots,” reported tsn.ua.

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