Mikhail Gorbachev comes out as Christian:
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet Union, has acknowledged his Christian faith for the first time, paying a surprise visit to pray at the tomb of St Francis of Assisi.[...]
Mr Gorbachev's surprise visit confirmed decades of rumours that, although he was forced to publicly pronounce himself an atheist, he was in fact a Christian, and casts a meeting with Pope John Paul II in 1989 in a new light.
What a lovely final rebuke to Karl Marx.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/03/closet-believer/218685/
