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I was to post this yesterday (that being Easter), but never got around to it. But it turns out the last Soviet premier is and was a Christian.

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.

(via Andrew Sullivan)

EDIT (3/29/2008): A different report says that Mr. Gorbachev is an atheist. I don’t know what to believe. (via AS)