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Over seventy years ago, in the face of Stalin??s anti-religious purge, the once-famed and numerous bells of Moscow were melted down. One of the few sets to survive the era, the seventeen bells of the St. Danilov monastery, was bought by American entrepreneur Charles R. Crane, who decided later to donate them to Harvard. In 1930, they became part of one of Harvard’s most distinctive architectural features: the Lowell House bell tower. Now, almost 20 years after the reopening of the monastery, multilateral talks between the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian government...
Meanwhile in Moscow, Russian Orthodox clergy were jubilant that the bells were finally coming back to the 724-year-old Danilov Monastery, where they hung until an American industrialist rescued them from Josef Stalin??s campaign to convert religious artifacts into raw materials...
Aside from being home to one of the few sets of Russian bells that survived Stalin??s regime, the Lowell belltower is also known for hosting raucous parties that attract students from across the campus...
...certain stage at which open hostility and cynicism begins to pay diminishing returns... Perhaps the current American reaction of automatic skepticism towards everything that Russia does or says or promises is a natural after-effect of the Great Awakening, the days when the U.S. first recognized the meaning of Stalin??s smiles. From an unjustified good faith in Russia’s intentions, America leaped into fear and a deep contempt for the new enemy, instead of assuming a proper attitude of caution and watchful reserve...In reaction to Soviet offers to confer, the U.S. answers with despairing...
While he gingerly excuses Stalin??s murderousness, he vociferously praises Mao and the Cultural Revolution for enacting a scientifically “correct” view of Marxism...