St. Nicholas Cathedral functioned as a swimming pool, Bobruisk, Belarusian SSR, 1970s

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  1. Welp, that wasn’t an isolated case

    There was a huge orthodox cathedral in the center of Moscow destroyed in 1931 for creating [the Palace of the Soviets](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Soviets), an absolutely monstrous shit. The Nazi invasion stopped the construction works and in the end of the day the project was abandoned. But in 1958 they constructed [the world’s largest open swimming pool](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskva_Pool) on that foundation. It existed up to 1994; a year later the cathedral got restored. Now [it’s ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Christ_the_Saviour)the symbol of the Russian Orthodox church’s opulence, lust for power, and collaboration with the regime. That was the church where [Pussy Riot performed their anti-Putin and anti-clerical song](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Riot) in 2012

  2. In the late 1980s I watched Predator in a video salon (two TVs in a small hall), which was located in a former Catholic church in our city.

  3. Take some Soviet red, mix it with a hint of industrial grey, and use a spatula to lay it over the kolchoz brown we previously used.
    Don’t worry about any imprecisions, we call those happy little dissidents, and have a place for them.

    Bob Ruisk (1970s)

  4. At least something usefull was done. But It seems that people prefer to hear somebody talking non sense stories than practice healthy sport.

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