Rorate Caeli: Forgiving your persecutors? Yes, a Christian attitude. “Honoring the king”? Yes, certainly (I Pt 2:17).
Giving a public prize honoring the leading figure of the organizational successor of the very same unrepentant Atheistic Materialistic Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist political party that martyred as many of your ancestors in the faith as they could and that tried to wipe out any trace of Christianity from your land with cruelty and ferocity unsurpassed since Apostolic times? Well, that is quite unexpected. More here.
