Riporta la notizia il St. Petersburg Times:

1. Soviet leader Josef Stalin might seem like an unlikely subject for an icon, but one priest disagrees — and his stance has sparked an angry response from the church. The St. Petersburg Metropolitanate of the Russian Orthodox Church said Friday that it had reprimanded a priest who displayed an icon depicting Stalin in a church in a nearby town.
   

Stalin chiedeva consigli alla santa su come sconfiggere i nazisti:

1. Father Yevstafy Zhakov, priest of St. Olga’s Church in the Leningrad region town of Strelna, recently put up an icon showing Stalin standing before the Blessed Matrona of Moscow, a 20th-century saint. Father Yevstafy said that, according to legend, Stalin would often talk to the woman and that she gave him advice on how to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. Yevstafy said this is the scene depicted in the icon.
   

L’icona di Stalin pare sia stata rimossa dalla chiesa e il prete spedito due mesi in SIberia a riflettere.