The Millennium Shrimp

From London’s Telegraph:

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet Union, has acknowledged his Christian faith for the first time, paying a surprise visit to pray at the tomb of St Francis of Assisi.

Gorbachev’s acknowledgment confirms decades of speculation that, although he publicly professed Atheism in line with Soviet dogma, he was in fact a secret believer.
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