On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Vadim Rogovin, we republish two tributes to the greatest Soviet and Russian Marxist sociologist and historian of the second half of the twentieth century.
In May 1997, David North, delivered the following greetings on behalf of the International Committee of the Fourth International to Vadim Rogovin in Moscow on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
pilate was at the other side of town where the traditional site, he s be living in the barracks and his number 2 would have the palace. reporter: this should be the first station of the cross. this should be the first station of the cross, the steps we go up. it leads to a little platform and you can see that we re above the level of the traffic today, but you can imagine pilate sitting in his seat here, a small crowd out there, and, he offers them a choice between jesus or barabbas. reporter: after that he likely would have been led down this path. a street like this, through the old city and it would have been difficult because he wasn t carrying the cross as we are used to in paintings. reporter: he would not have been carrying a cross like this, he would have been strapped to the bar. it was divided into two, one is set up vertical at the place
what is now an arab boys school, the first station of the cross where pontias pilate judged jesus and condemned him to death. the faithful stop at 14 stations along the way. however, this is a path of faith, not fact, according to historians and archaeologists, even the number of stations increased from 8 to 14 during the middle ages and the real via de la rosa follows a different path. father murphy o conner says the true beginning starts at the opposite side of the city. jesus was sentenced in front of pontias pilate s residential which father murray o connor says at the time would have been here in what was a palace used by the romans. if you were a general and had a colonel, would you live in the palace or the barracks?
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