O outro lado da história

"... the most intense persecution of Christianity occurred not in the Roman Empire, but in the twentieth century, especially in the Communist world. A large part of this story, hidden and ignored, is told in a new book by Robert Royal, The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century (Crossroad Publishing).
It is hard to tabulate or even estimate the number of Catholics and other Christians murdered by modern tyrannies. The figure certainly runs into the tens of millions ...
After World War II, Communism’s triumph in Catholic Central Europe – the bitter fruit of the Anglo-American alliance with the Soviet Union – brought ferocious assaults on Catholics..." Joseph Sobran (1946–2010)