The French Revolution is nothing to celebrate; it launched radical nationalism, socialism, and the ruthless persecution of Christians that killed some 300,000 peasants in the Vendée , who resisted the government’s efforts to control the religious lives of citizens. Learn why Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn came to the Vendée and compared the French to the Bolshevik revolution, as analogous catastrophes for freedom and faith. Stream senior editor John Zmirak joins Matt Swaim of EWTN Radio to talk about his new piece on the history, and the current dangers to the liberty of Christians posed by an aggressively secular state, right here in America.

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