“What a high level of solidarity [among polar expedition members], no spiteful, hostile competition, no weapons, no military activity, no scientific research aimed at exterminating another person. This is an image of the ideal society. And when I saw penguins who come up to you, I recalled that in paradise there were no conflicts between animals and the man either/”
(Russian Patriarch Kirill on visiting Antarctica)

 

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