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Sunday Night Jam: Bob Schneider's Lonelyland, Saxon Pub Residency 12/15/14

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Nyet12/29/2014 6:20:22 am PST

re: #297 Snarknado!

True, but nothing new. The last senior cleric who went against the government was probably Metropolitan Phillip, and that was 1568.

The ROC also thoroughly collaborated with the Soviet regime, the whole Church elite consisted of KGB agents (incl. of course the current Patriarch). But it was still an oppressed religious community and an average believer (incl. local priests) in Soviet times was more likely to be a true believer, deserving of sympathy for believing despite the atheist dictatorship’s orders.

So it’s all the more bitterly ironic how the oppressed turned into the oppressors in such a short time span.