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Christ the Saviour Cathedral
– This cathedral, the tallest Orthodox church in the world (the largest being the Temple of Saint Savain Belgrade), was blown up on orders from Stalin in 1931, to provide a site for building the gargantuan Palace of the Soviets, to be crowned by a 100-m-high statue of Lenin.
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The project ran into engineering and geological difficulties (the area used to be a swamp), then the War intervened, and the place was ceded to a year-round open-air swimming pool. The pool was razed and the cathedral rebuilt only after the fall of the Soviet Union, in the mid-1990s, and re-consecrated in 2000.
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The pool was razed and the cathedral rebuilt only after the fall of the Soviet Union, in the mid-1990s, and re-consecrated in 2000.
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