“The documents proving the ark existed were given to a Russian soldier to deliver to the Czar. When he reached Moscow, he was captured by the Communists. Rumor has it he was shot, and the documents fell into the hands of Trotsky, the Communist leader. All the documents disappeared!”

— Jack T. Chick

Chick tracts, " Doom Town http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0272/0272_01.asp" (1991)

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