this period to religion is a 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 the concept of christianity are incompatible. the top of the third reich, to put it mildly, had nothing to do with christianity, it was extremely hostile to christianity, it was completely pagan and completely anti-christian. there were already ideological people who were focused on the revival of german paganism. at the start of the great patriotic war, the state of church life in the soviet union was quite difficult, as a result of decades of anti-religious policies. the head of the russian orthodox church was not the patriarch, but the patriarchal locum tenens, sergei strogorodsky. saint tihan died in 1925, and after that the soviet government did not allow elections for a new patriarch, so there was. first there was metropolitan peter, who, by the way, here in zherovichi was the caretaker of the zherovichi theological school for 10 years, and then metropolitan sergei stargorodsky, it was