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Publication: www.indiacause.com
Date: December 2005
URL: http://www.indiacause.com/cause/iv001_russia_temple.aspx
"The KGB started massive persecution
campaigns against the first followers of ISKCON. For their belief, around
hundred of the first Russian (Hindu) devotees were thrown into prisons, labor
camps and psychiatric hospitals....In the 90's the Moscow government gave
devotees a ruined building unsuitable for inhabitation and commercial usage
on rent. In a short time, laboring with love for Lord Krishna, devotees turned
that building into the first Hindu temple in Russia.....However, in 2004 the
Moscow government took back the temple building destroyed it....The Mayor
of Moscow signed the order (January 2004) to give the land for the construction
of a new temple in Moscow....In October 2005, the Mayor of Moscow Yuriy Luzhkov
suddenly cancelled the land order" More...
In his recent letter to the Mayor of Moscow,
the Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church described Lord Krishna as "an
evil demon, the personified power of hell opposing God," and "a
livid lascivious youth". The Archbishop further requested the Mayor to
ban construction of the proposed Krishna temple in Moscow saying it would
otherwise become "an idolatrous disgrace erected for the glory of wicked
and malicious 'god' Krishna ." He continued: "Construction of the
temple (a satanic obscenity destined to be built right in the heart of the
Orthodox Christian country of Russia) to Krishna offends our religious feelings
and insults the thousand-year religious culture of Russia where the overwhelming
majority of people, Christians and Muslims including, consider Krishna an
evil demon, the personified power of hell opposing God." Links: MoscowNews,
Timeonline, Interfax, wwrn, Iskon
India has thousands of Churches & Mosques
on her land. Can there not be even a single temple in Russia? The actions
of the Moscow Administration and the Orthodox community are strictly against
"The declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration on the Minorities
Rights Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/135 of
18 December 1992"
