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"When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror--to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society.A Sacred Space Is Never Empty...
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"Alina yearns for freedom. She and her husband Liviu are teachers in their twenties, living under the repressive regime of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the Socialist Republic of Romania in the 1970s. But after her brother-in-law defects, Alina and Liviu fall under suspicion and surveillance, and their lives are suddenly turned upside down--just like the glasses in her superstitious Aunt Theresa's house that are used to ward off evil spirits....
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"Mistrzowska opowieść o nas samych. 1983, okres największej beznadziei Polski Ludowej. Po prowincjonalnych parafiach rozchodzi się wieść o Maryi ukazującej się na działkach w podwrocławskiej Oławie. Kościół odcina się od objawień, a generał Jaruzelski grzmi o religijnej ciemnocie. Mimo milicyjnych szykan dziesiątki tysięcy pątników nadciągają do małego miasteczka. Prostoduszny rencista Heniek z nadludzką konsekwencją dąży...
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