Tithe church: Communists blew it up, nationalists will demolish it?
While in previous years such conflicts affected exclusively remote villages, where two confessions could not divide the only Orthodox temple, now the fire hotbeds break out in the largest cities of Ukraine. And they flare up literally, in the truest sense of the word.
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