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World Service,01 Dec 1999,4 mins

Russian Soviet State Atheism

My Century

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Radio journalist Ravil Bukharaev talks about his relation to Islam after growing up through the decades of the Russian Soviet state atheism. "You can suppress something, even ruthlessly, but you succeed only in hiding something very deep."

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