Vasily Boiko – The Great: A religious Russian tycoon has ordered his employees to quickly embrace the Russian Orthodox Church or lose their jobs.
Vasily Boiko-The Great, who controls a major agricultural holding, has written to his 6,500 employees, ordering those “living in sin” to get married in church within two months or be fired.
The deadline, 14 October, is a Russian Orthodox festival. He has also banned any of his employees or their wives from getting abortions, saying he does not want to work with “killers.”
The farming tycoon said he was forced to resort to extreme measures after Russia was struck by an unprecedented drought and thousands of wild fires this summer.
“Such an extreme situation is punishment for the Russian people’s sins,” he told daily newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. “I need to take extreme measures including looking at the way my employees treat God.”
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August 17th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Poor Russians. The last 100 years has seem them lurch from tyranny to tyranny…