" the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" - Matthew 16:18. - 1988 – 1000th Christian Anniversary. The thousandth anniversary of the conversion of Ukraine and Russia to Christianity. Easter services were broadcast for the first time over Soviet television. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, met publicly with Patriarch Pimen and other leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church. Hundreds of churches were reopened; famous monasteries. The Faith survived and Communism went down to defeat!
1990 – A monk from the Russian Orthodox monastery at Zagorsk, carrying a life-sized crucifix seven feet tall, who stood before Lenin’s tomb facing the relic of the dead ultimate revolutionary and his living heirs, and cried out to Gorbachev in a voice of thunder: “Mikhail Sergeyevich, Christ is Risen!“