Dostoyevsky set the key scene of The Brothers Karamazov in the Optina monastery. It was here that his characters debated whether morality was possible without God. In 1940, Optina became an NKVD base, and that question found a grisly non-fictional answer. https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2022/04/daniel-hannan-in-poland-proof-the-nation-state-is-our-surest-shield-against-tyranny.html

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