persecuted lutherans and seized church property including this cathedral the community led by archbishop paula has been using it again since the fall of the soviet union but so far it has remained russian government property. and that the courts here on a case like someone started living in your apartment and it's not yours anymore so they let you turn up but the whole time you have the ceiling. and any point to a card and don't bring the government's hands or other hands it's ours it's it feels like home again this is just. in the officially atheist soviet union many churches were repurposed from nine hundred thirty seven this cathedral was used as a movie theater and a film studio by then all lutheran churches across the country have been closed and many of their pastors arrested and shot. here at video cemetery in moscow long known as the city's german cemetery the scars of that persecution are still tangible many. gravestones here were neglected and destroyed after the second world war the lutheran community struggled with the additional stigma of its german origins often associated with t