Religion: The Score

In Moscow last week a special Soviet commission totted up church buildings "destroyed or damaged" during the Nazi occupation of Russia:

¶ 1,670 Orthodox churches;

¶ 237 Roman Catholic churches;

¶ 532 synagogues;

¶ 258 monasteries and other church buildings;

¶ 69 chapels.

Number of anti-religious museums destroyed: not given.

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