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. you are my comrades agency. the state security committee of belarus and the belarusian orthodox church present a documentary investigation about the religious movement during the great patriotic war. a time of testing strength, patriotism or betrayal. everyone has their own motivation.

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on june 22, 1941, the first massive attacks of the third reich were carried out on the territory of the soviet union. ignoring the non-aggression treaty, nazi germany and its allies attacked the ussr without declaring war. the german propaganda machine , led by goebbels, explained this not as a war with the country and the people, but as a military campaign to fight the bolsheviks. nazi propaganda used this as an anti-soviet thesis, that there was a crusade against the godless bolsheviks, but this seemed to be purely at the level of propaganda ideology, somewhere, including in germany, this was told, and why.

it must be clearly understood that germany wanted to conquer this territory, quickly walk through it, reach moscow and decide its own.

ghettos, got rid of communists, port workers, jews, also introduced the so -called new order, created bodies administrative power. the nazis and their accomplices carried out the religious case of the military-political leadership of the third reich in the occupied territory of belarus, relying on the ideology of national socialism, which not only denied the role of the church in political life, but also christianity in general. germany headed for the revival of the ancient pagan cult.

a striking example, which essentially reflects the content of the attitude of the german leadership of this period towards religion, is the letter bormann wrote to rusenberg shortly before the attack on the soviet union in 1941. in this letter, he clearly indicated that the concept of national socialism and...

stalin addressed the pastors and flock with his message. the metropolitan's proclamation was reproduced in thousands of copies and distributed along with leaflets in the occupied territory. the head of the church , metropolitan sergei, until june 22, he was generally deprived of the right to vote, he was deprived of the opportunity to actually lead the church, that is, he seemed to live his very limited life, performed divine services, he did not have the right to address even his flock, not to mention that. what about citizens of the soviet union. metropolitan sergius draws attention to the swastika. and he says: “we are christians, we have

the cross of christ, and here is a swastika, a broken cross with broken ends. and this is a pagan symbol. allegedly, the third reich brings liberation from godlessness, liberation of the church, this is a deception. we stand up in defense of our country, our ".

in the complete inaction of the polish police. after the reunification of western and eastern belarus, orthodox parishes and monasteries that were influenced by the polish autocephalous church, returned to the structure of the russian orthodox church. archbishop panteleimon razhnovsky was released from arrest in the zherovik monastery. he stood, so to speak, at the helm of the church, when the war came to our lands, he remained here in the occupied territories, he continued. support and build church life. metropolitan panteleimon razhnovsky,

who led the church under these conditions of occupation and is a patriot of his country, and an opponent of autocephaly, any divisions, and an opponent interference, occupiers in the affairs of the church, many laymen and monks there or monks remained nowhere, despite the fact that many of them in the east of belarus went through exile and camps. for the german akupatsyny settlements, the kali yana spachat vyhodsils on all these teritors, for them such a madman, a trump card is important, this adradzhenne tsarkounaga life, the yana of the propagandistic hetas were embodied, the german acupunctive authorities

travel here in belarus, and in the other world they take care of themselves adradzhenne vos getaga tsarkonaga. life. the ideologists of the third reich knew what bet. church life in soviet times was prohibited, and people needed spiritual support. the population needs to be given this support and given the opportunity to freely visit churches. it was possible to flirt with the population, thus giving the opportunity to resume church life. and the first month of the occupation showed this. yes, in principle, hundreds of baptisms take place during this period of time, church marriages are concluded, and divine services begin almost the next day.

went to revive spiritual life in eastern regions of belarus. the missionaries traveled on horseback to cover as much of the area as possible. in almost every locality they gathered believers around them and wrote petitions addressed to bishop panteleman with a request to revive parishes and open churches. preachers could not move freely throughout the occupied territory; they were required to obtain passes from the nazi authorities. central belarus belonged to the belorutenia district. vitebsk and part of mogilev are the rear of the army-center group, so permission was issued military administration, gomel region, district ukraine. people went to the eastern territories and did not know what to expect there, because these were liberated territories, they could often be met with hostility from some part of the population, it was often a misunderstanding, and on the part of the partisans, they

could also meet some kind of hostility here. then opposition, this. took several months, the winter was extremely harsh, frosts reached 30°. father seraphim and priest grigory kudarenko examined the surviving churches, baptized children, and held funeral services dead, believers cleared churches of various debris, because often church buildings were converted into granaries, warehouses, clubs, believers in newly opened churches carried crosses, icons and

various liturgical objects that they saved during times of church persecution. the priests remained faithful to their flock, took an oath of allegiance to the church, and of course, the pastoral duty of the priest dictated that he act according to his conscience in a given situation. many priests, they were guided by this pastoral feeling, the feeling of love, assessed the situation that was developing directly at that time, it is clear that they tried in every possible way to save and help those people with

whom they live, who are their parishioners. for some german leaders, the implementation of the church strategy has become the starting point. to satisfy their own ambitions, the nazi intelligence services, the main directorate of reich security and the abwehr entered into confrontation. some supported bormann and his position to develop religious life in the occupied territories. the abwehr was on rosenberg's side, who advocated the use of religion as a tool to implement economic political plans. rosenberg himself lived in russia, received an education, he knew what it was. we will not interfere with the revival of the orthodox church, but we...

with clear and even harsh demands of the occupiers, these demands were not aimed at the development of the church, not at preserving the faith,

they still set the distant goals of destruction, and christianity did not fit into the doctrine nazism the contradictions that existed in german religious policy in the occupied territories, is well reflected by one of the regulations, this is... operational order number 10, which was adopted by the rsha, the main department of imperial security, in the summer of forty-one , it literally said that it was prohibited to provide any assistance - in the renewal religious activities, this means opening churches, teaching, training clergy in the occupied territories. by issuing various regulations, directives, orders, the nazis tried to win over clergy. through them to bring the necessary information to the population. during the occupation of belarus, the german administration gave the green light to the opening of pastoral courses. sometimes people who were completely far

from the church were recruited there, but priests were also trained from them. the training was led by filofey narko, but a representative of the civil administration and the sd security service was present at each of the classes. such courses operated in minsk, grodno, novogrudok, vitebsk, zhirovichi. from 41 to 45 more were ordained as priests. administration, burgonist of the minsk district and part-time abwehr agent, radoslav ostrovsky, dmitry kosmovich, who led the police in minsk and ivan kosyak, an employee of the general commissariat, they

had to persuade metropolitan pontileiman razhnovsky to autocephaly, he was given an ultimatum, he will lead the church under certain conditions , the first announcement of autocephaly of the belarusian orthodox church, translation into belarusian of the production of the service, preparation. statute of the belarusian autocephalous church and a number of others provisions that he had to implement. panteleiman was a faithful supporter of the canonical integrity of the orthodox church and did not support the idea of ​​schism. the metropolitan was sent into exile to a monastery in the town of lyady, not far from minsk. at the monastery, vladyka was under house arrest. the windows of pantileiman razhnovsky's cell overlooked the central monastery courtyard, the main cathedral. today there is a house church in the metropolitan chambers. bishop. in fact, he was sent to rest, he handed over the affairs to the assistant archbishop of mogilev and mstislav, filofei people's commissar. the gauleiter of cuba supports the idea of ​​belarusian collaborators to create a belarusian

autocephalous orthodox church. in order to implement this project, it is necessary to tear the belarusian orthodox church and its pastor and flock away from the mother one, that is, the russian orthodox church. in 1942 , the nazis and their supporters began to implement a schismatic plan. filofey narko was recruited.

obrazhensky cathedral, that is, the main church of minsk, under the leadership of filofei narku , the all-belarusian orthodox church began work council, at which the fate of the belarusian orthodox church was decided, the metropolitan was not allowed to attend the meeting, he set the condition that he would declare an autocephalous church subject to the recognition of all orthodox churches, including the moscow patriarchate, letters were prepared to all churches, and were translated...

the autocephalous project in the occupied territory of belarus failed, the policy of a loyal attitude to the church, flirting with the population when they were allowed to open churches and openly attend services, was not successful, it did not receive the proper return; neither the population, nor the priests, nor the occupiers supported it. the great patriotic war was a time when dozens of belarusian priests carried out their quiet feat, silently, in secret, and did what a shepherd should do in difficult times for the country, they saved people, jews were given certificates of baptism, distributed leaflets, collected medicines, even weapons , transferred all this to the partisan detachments. often they themselves became liaison officers for partisan formations and underground groups. the priests helped wounded red army soldiers who were surrounded, hid them in their homes, nursed them, exposed not only themselves, but also their family, to attack. many shepherds were over 70, but they devoted all their strength to the cause of future victory, obtained information,

passed it on to the partisans, against them. rykh sent his advanced forces, special services. the sd detained the clergyman of one of the churches in the minsk region, peter batyaan, for helping, in fact, the partisans, for helping the local population, he was sent to the minsk prison, well, not just to sit in the minsk prison and go to interrogations, they harnessed him like a horse to the plow, they plowed the prison garden with him, they poisoned dogs against him until... he actually died. in the village of mokrogo, modern luninets district, in 1942 , more than 400 people were killed for connections with partisans. priest epiphany voloshchuk served in the local st. george church. he maintained contact with the partisans. when he learned about punitive actions, he rang the bells, everyone was surprised, it seemed like there was no holiday, but the bells were ringing. and these bells - that’s

how it was. on easter the morning service was served easter, the german punitive forces came and the ringing of the bells informed the entire local population that danger was approaching, in this way he saved, i think, even more than a dozen lives of our local residents. the punitive forces broke into the temple, arrested the priest, and sent him to the vlaha concentration camp, 15 kilometers from the place. the service of father epiphany, he was brutally beaten for several weeks, not fed, not given medical care, he died from the beatings, while saving hundreds of innocent lives. from this great virtue to love of people, love for god, so we see that from life’s example that father epiphanius accepted such a very low death because of the love of god and because of the love for the local residents and for his beloved parishioners.