Such a softening of the church's position was probably the result of the public outcry in Russia's liberal press. Yet the pogrom at the Sakharov museum provoked a chain reaction of similar attacks on contemporary art by Orthodox fundamentalists whom the church has been unable to control.
教堂立场的软化也许是公众在俄国自由媒体上疾呼的结果。但萨哈罗夫博物馆的迫害引发了连锁发应，导致东正教旨主义者大肆攻击现代艺术，教堂也对此失去了控制。