River Orthodox religious procession with Memorial Cross (2)

BBC, 6 August 2007: 'A giant cross commemorating the victims of Stalin's terror 70 years after the worst of the purges has reached Moscow after a journey from northern Russia.
It was taken by boat from the Solovetsky Islands, site of a prison camp, and will be erected at a former execution ground outside the capital.

An estimated 20,000 people, 1,000 of them [Orthodox] Christians, were executed at the Butovo range between 1937 and 1938.

The Siberian cedar cross is 12.5m (41 feet) high and 7.6m (25 feet) wide'.

The Union of Orthodox Banner-Bearers took part in river Orthodox religious procession with Memorial Cross.

'Russia' channel, 06.08.2007.

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[kavaldzhia]

Слава Тебе Господи, слава тебе !

Покой Господи, душы обятиах рабов Твоих !

ВЕЧНАЯ ИМ ПАМЯТЬ !

[hevidt]

my paternal grandfather was a russian orthodox priest. he was executed by the "bolsheviks communist jewish regime". jews always want to be knowned as the victims not as criminals. they always want to come out smelling like roses.

[fidokalman]

Long live the true Orthodox Nation Holy Mother Russia Russia Serbia Greece SLAVA!

[mexicanendric]

Long Live to Christian Russia!!!

[Orthodoxon]

GOD bless the Holy Mother Russia

[Politeama]

This is very sad. Communism only brings pain, sorrow, death, oppression, hunger, that's the history of communism.  Extreme left equals extreme right. Concentration camps with Staling and with Hitler. They were both the same. Good for the Russian people that remember those unfortunate victims of communism. Eternal repose!