Ivanovka 1943

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Actually, the Timecast pair look most suitable. I must confess that I would never have thought of looking in the Napoleonic section for them. Thinking about the matter, most of the churches in the Ukraine would have been abandoned, since religion was banned under the Communists.

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Thinking about the matter, most of the churches in the Ukraine would have been abandoned, since religion was banned under the Communists.

Well, yes and no. The greatest number of churches that were still open in Communist times were located in Ukraine. But it's still a fraction of the total number of churches before Communism.

According to both Soviet and Western sources, in the late 1980s the Russian Orthodox Church had over 50 million believers but only about 7,000 registered active churches. Over 4,000 of these churches were located in the Ukrainian Republic (almost half of them in western Ukraine).

From Wikipedia.