Nadia Diuk: The church that Stalin couldn’t kill
Ukrainians place candles in memory of the victims of the Holodomor famine during a ceremony at the Holodomor memorial in Kyiv on Nov. 22, 2014. (AFP)
Seventy years ago, on March 8-10, 1946, under orders from Josef Stalin, an illegal “synod” of Kremlin-controlled clergy gathered in the city of Lviv, recently absorbed into the Soviet Union as part of the settlement of World War II.