Lenin's monument is loaded onto a truck after being toppled in Lithuania, Aug. 23, 1991. Alik Keplicz / AP Religious leaders have denounced Russia's 1917 communist revolution as a “Western plot” to destroy the country. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), an autonomous branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, claimed that Russian elites brain-washed by “Westernism” plunged Russia i
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