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policy towards African women, or for the imprisonment of the only political dissident in SA who stands for brutally honesty, 100% transparency truth and reconciliation, for a crime far less offensive, than that of Pussy Riots. Amnesty International, the US

State

Department,

government

and

the

the

British

European

government,

Commission

had

the no

Swedish

objections

whatsoever to the ANC‘s ‗Operation Production‘ Anti-Apartheid policies, or their ‗show trial‘ conviction of a Radical Honesty political dissident and her prison sentence or the South African courts refusal to allow her to appeal. STATEMENT OF FACTS [16]

The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour16 (Храм Христа Спасителя,

Khram Khrista Spasitelya) is a church in Moscow, Russia, on the northern bank of the Moskva River, a few blocks south-west of the Kremlin. On 25 December 1812, Emperor Alexander I signed a manifest,

after

Napoleon

Bonaparte

retreated

from

Moscow,

declaring his intention to build a cathedral in honor of Christ the Saviour ―to signify Our gratitude to Divine Providence for saving Russia from the doom that overshadowed Her‖ and as a memorial to the sacrifices of the Russian people. [17]

Under

the

Soviet

Union‘s

state

atheism,

many

―church

institution[s] at [the] local, diocesan or national level were systematically

destroyed‖

in

the

1921-1928

antireligious

campaign. The church was demolished on 05 December, 1931. After the Revolution and Vladimir Lenin‘s death, Joseph Stalin chose 16

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