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Turns out those millions who died from the religious persecution in the USSR were no big deal. One guy born long after the murders assures us it was all fine and besides, he\u2019s not much interested in religious questions so: eh. That\u2019s the sort of hard-hitting willingness to challenge the status quo so prized by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nComfortably Numb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Turns out those millions who died from the religious persecution in the USSR were no big deal. 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