all the services and all the prayers of these 70 years no longer count; for me, if anything can be called heresy, it is the rejection of the hard-won and prayed-for symphony of the soviet state and the orthodox church in the 20th century. in modern times, it is difficult to imagine concepts more distant from each other than christianity and socialism. recently, a respected orthodox tv presenter and editor delivered a programmatic text saying that the attempt to combine orthodoxy and socialism is heresy. and he declared personal war on this heresy. it's not enough for us. one war,

now also this. knowing about my views, people sometimes in churches or after waiting for the end of the service at the exit from the church, stopped me and asked: zakhar, how can you be orthodox for socialism? usually i answered: what christ was for capitalism, where is it said about this - i asked. let's talk about this as carefully as possible, because this topic arose, surprisingly, not in 1917, but long before, by 197 it had just matured, the book of articles by sergei nikolaevvich made a very strong impression on me bulgakov christianity and socialism. bulgakov, let me remind you, was a russian religious philosopher of the early 20th century, theologian, orthodox priest, he died in exile. i will say right away, looking ahead, he was an opponent of the bolshevik revolution, but at the beginning of the century he wrote a number of important works on topics that interested us, which later, by his own admission, he did not ...

refuse, the first question that bulgakov raises is: is it necessary at all? all this politics for an orthodox person? does an orthodox person need to understand what is socialism different from capitalism? here bulgakov answers: social and political indifferentism, elevated to a principle, is as immoral as a utopian worldview, but it is also anti-christian, because according to the teachings of christianity , history ... is a divine-human process in which a single humanity gathers and organizes itself, so called the body of christ. for this task, efforts of personal improvement and personal salvation alone are not enough, but it is also necessary to influence social forms and external relations people among themselves, it is necessary not only personal, but also social morality, that is, politics. politics is a means of external organization of humanity. in this sense

, the means, although of transitory significance, are of undeniable importance, writes bulgakov. in order to deny politics and society, you need to deny history, and in order to deny the meaning of history, you need to deny humanity as a whole, scattering its single body into atoms, individual individuals, and finally denying the entire humanity, you inevitably have to deny god himself humanity, that is, to deny christ in the end, and from here the conclusion is that a christian cannot and should not be indifferent to the tasks of politics and society put forward by modernity. further, he discusses how at that time, this is the beginning of the century, i repeat, even before the revolution, how things are in this sense in russia at that time, this is how they are. the majority of people of the christian worldview have almost no even basic acquaintance with social science; it is difficult to express how much this

deficiency harms them. in our theological schools there is no even the rudiments of law and political economy are taught. they remain the lot of secular atheistic humanism. and when our hierarchs begin to preach on social and political issues, they simply amaze everyone with their ignorance in the area they are talking about. until now, they are in the circle of some antediluvian, or at least pre-capitalist ideas, in which the only response to social needs is the distribution of alms of the bogadel system. to such a strange one, i’ll tell you straight the criminal attitude towards the social question and social science of our days must come to an end, unless representatives of the church finally condemn themselves to public suicide and commit treason to the cause of god. an acquaintance with political economy and the elements of jurisprudence is a duty especially for every pastor. for without

this acquaintance it is impossible to understand social life. social science, which is nothing more than social ethics, should be included as a necessary teaching material v. spiritual school, it’s time to finally understand that christ’s commandment to clothe the cold, feed the hungry, visit the prisoner in prison, is being fulfilled at present more than in any other form through complex social technology, social legislation, and work organizations , strikes, cooperative movement, because if you sincerely want to fulfill the commandment of christ, then you need to be able to fulfill it, the next step: bulgakov understand how to fulfill the commandment of christ, what kind of complex social the technology is behind it all. bulgakov was certainly upset by the atheism professed by the socialists of that time. nevertheless, he wrote: such a relationship between atheism and socialism is not at all

necessary or the only possible ; on the contrary, we know that christian socialism exists, can and should exist, socialism not in the name of man-divinity. and in the name of the god of humanity, and further, writes bulgakov: initially christianity and socialism have a common immortal idea of ​​​​human equality, of brotherhood, both of them address the working people and the burdened, the former address with consolation, the latter with an appeal, and the human source for both is love among themselves, but what struck me even more was that in his works the religious philosopher and future priest bulgak... literally lays out lenin’s political program point point by point, 12 years, let me remind you, before the revolution, in particular, he writes: russia needs freedom of conscience and religion, the orthodox church, together with other religious communities, must be freed from the state tutelage of its

dominant position, to gain its full internal autonomy. in the future there must be a complete separation of church and state. further, bulgakov writes, i think this will surprise you. a necessary component of the constitution is broad local self-government and national autonomy. this is a quote: bulgakov writes that the boundaries of autonomy are realized by actual conditions, historical relations and the will of the people or people. the union of christian politics, he further writes, must wage war on war, in particular, oppose all ways of growing militarism. work question: bulgakov writes this: the very possibility of exploiting workers... associated with the essence of capitalism is a social sin that must be eliminated, therefore the abolition of the capitalist system, replacing it with one in which this possibility will be eliminated, that is, the socialist system, is a natural task of christian politics,

that's what bulgakov wrote. further: universal free education should be conducted - he wrote, without the mandatory teaching of the law of god, so he wrote, here i don’t agree, by the way, but we're talking about something else, these ideas, not the damned demonic bolsheviks brought from their bolshevik prison exiles, they were in the air, disturbing the greatest minds, including the minds of christian thinkers, otherwise you are immediately heresy, heresy, they will tell me here, oh well, i also cited sergei bulgakov as an example and well now, maybe he was mistaken, maybe he... was mistaken, and nevertheless, metropolitan vladimir bogoevlensky wrote in 1906: the criticism of the socialists of the order of the russian empire will, alas, have to be recognized as fair in many respects . gross disproportionality the conflict between rich and poor is seen

by everyone who wants to see; it is only the dulling power of habit that can be attributed to the fact that christianity tolerates such divisions in its midst. in fact, can one not be indignant at the christian sense of human dignity and the feeling of brotherly love at the sight of a person being reduced to the position of a slave or even to the position of a beast of burden? yes, it is a serious phenomenon that such inconsistency is possible in the christian world. in this regard, the metropolitan, who did not consider himself a socialist, nevertheless, he demanded that the pastors of the church carefully understand what is in socialist teaching... and what, on the contrary, is fair? otherwise, he warned: the trust of the simple suffering people in the church will only fall and look for their intercessors, he wrote: the people will not be in the church fence, but outside it. proteiri theologian biblist, jacob iakovlevich galakhov, wrote

at the same time that in addition to errors, socialism also contains truth, with which, quote: everyone who professes the teachings of the lord jesus christ must agree. in particular the pastor pointed out that socialism is right when it opposes the transformation of the poor into instruments of capitalist production. quote: there is no need to be surprised if the consciousness has arisen that it is time to overthrow the idol of moloch, which is devouring human lives, it is time to put a limit to the power of the monster, capital; in the capitalist system, the dignity of a person is determined not by what he is, not by his mind, character, good qualities of the soul , and with what he has, society values ​​in a person his property, capital, means, famous position, but the person himself is not appreciates and does not see, end of quote. never before, he wrote almost 120 years ago, has such worship of rudeness as in capitalist

society never before been possible to buy everything with money. socialism, he wrote, wants to free humanity from the oppression of things and objects, to give man the opportunity to discover his real internal content, its strengths and qualities, this is the truth of socialism, as he wrote: bishop andrei ukhtomsky also wrote about the strong countries of socialism. similar examples when spiritual pastors either directly preached the ideas of christian socialism, or saw great truth in socialism; even without sharing these ideas, a great many can be cited. but i hope you already understand that these were far from being isolated voices, namely, the current of theological thought of that time. perhaps the most important thing. current, but the hope of correcting the situation before everything collapsed, and the shepherds, of course, saw that everything

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your comrades, to defend your family and homeland, to fight for a just cause, to receive. become stronger, join your own people, serve under a contract, they will now tell me, after the bolsheviks destroyed the royal family, as well as thousands of priests, cossacks, russian officers, aristocrats, there is nothing more to discuss here, well, wait, why is there nothing? and what to discuss, let’s put it in a very simple way: in the civil war killed 10 million people, if you really go a long way, then you will certainly agree that approximately 5 million people were killed by the reds or posing as reds, and the other 5 million were killed by whites, all sorts of people posing as whites, bandits, interventionists, etc.

, and if the reds killed everyone you listed, then who did the whites kill then , so i’ll tell you who, the whites killed with the same success as the reds, for example, popov, yes, there was such a phenomenon, quite widespread, which is worth dedicating a separate program they killed red cossacks, they killed russian officers, since half of the pre-revolutionary officer corps of the ground forces and up to 80% of the naval officers before the revolution came to serve the bolsheviks, and the russian nobles were also killed by the whites, those nobles who went to serve the bolsheviks, or were originally bolsheviks, they were also killed, as for the royal family, then... it has already been proven many times and in detail that no orders from moscow from the northern people's commissar to shoot the royal family were received, and even on the contrary, the kolchak investigation established that lenin demanded the safety of the life of the imperial family, because he wanted an open public trial of nicholas ii. and even from sverdlov there was no sanction for the execution; it was a local decision

of the local flayers of bastards, whose motives are still not fully understood. they could very well evacuate. but they violated lenin’s order. yes, when the council of people’s commissars met upon receiving the news of the execution of nikolai romanov, sovankom decided not to apply sanctions against criminals, against murderers. we know nothing about the motives of sovanarkom, no minutes of the meeting were kept. however, it is important to note here that the council of people’s commissars simply did not know about the death of the entire family. they were informed about the execution of one nikolai romanov. in any case , blame for this absolute crime on the authorities, which. i repeat, i did not give any orders about this, the thing, to put it mildly, is controversial, civil war and such a black matter, extrajudicial executions, as a result of which innocent people, women, children died, and a huge number were committed by the whites and by the reds, but we not let’s hang all these victims, if it’s white on denikin and kolchak, the whole country

was going to pieces, things were happening that god forbid, would you be able to keep track of everyone, from moscow, for example, so there’s no need to throw sweeping accusations here... no need, impossible, because in any case we blame our people, our ancestors, russians, and most often, even orthodox people, no, of course, you can consider that among your ancestors there are only victims who stood for peace and good, among those who agree with me, everyone has ancestors, natural villains and god-fighters, but i don’t agree with you, forgive me, the confrontation was our common misfortune and the blame for it should be equally divided, and not pinned on some, piling up on others, well... the civil war had only just subsided, but it was still going on not until 1920, rather until 1922, and metropolitan sergei stargorsky already wrote in 1924: our orthodox church must deny communism as a religious teaching that comes out under the flag of atheism, but take

an irreconcilable position against communism as an economic teaching for our orthodox church, especially the russian church. would mean forgetting one’s most sacred past, the most dear and cherished aspirations by which the russian, truly orthodox church society lived and lives. end of quote: i repeat, said the theologian, the author of liturgical texts and spiritual poems, who later became, precisely on september 12, 1943, the patriarch of moscow and all russia, sergei stargorsky, to come to terms with communism as a teaching that is only economic. completely rejecting his religious teachings for our orthodox church would only mean returning to to his forgotten past, so he wrote: yes , the russian orthodox church abroad... did not and did not share such an opinion, but here we still must remember that perhaps the main goal of the russian orthodox church abroad was the destruction

of bolshevism in russia. this ultimately led to the fact that already in october 1941 , a proposal from the synod of bishops was sent to nazi berlin regarding the quote: the resumption of church life in the areas liberated from communist power. and quote: o the re-creation of a legitimate all-russian church... power under, we must understand, the fascists, but under whom else, so whatever you want, about the opinion of the future patriarch of the russian orthodox church sergei storogorodsky, regarding socialism, the attitude of the russian church towards it is more significant for me than the opinion russian orthodox church abroad, however, if somewhere a church decree was issued prohibiting focusing on patriarch sergius, which legitimized the opinion of the russian orthodox church abroad regarding socialism, then you, as they say, send me link, from today it may seem that under the soviet regime our pastors were forced to say such things, but we have already found out that such a point of view

was not suggested by the security officers, i’m not sure that they seriously understood this issue at all, this point of view firmly relied on the pre-revolutionary quest of our theologians, the greatest religious philosophers of russia, i would venture here, among other things , to remind you that part of the spiritual immigration did not ... turn to the russian orthodox church abroad, precisely because of the most serious attitude towards socialist ideas, as an example here we can cite the supporters of metropolitan eulogius of georgievsky. during the great patriotic war, the russian church restored the patriarchate, began to open its educational institutions and resumed the publication of the journal of the moscow patriarchate , where, ahead of the skeptics, i will say right away that, as a rule, no words of the soviet government were published, because the authorities did not set such tasks for the patriarchy, as rule. but, during the war in the first post-war over the years, more than 14,000 churches, 85 monasteries, eight seminaries, and two

theological academies were opened in the soviet union. whether this influenced the attitude of soviet power towards the church or not, the message of patriarch alexy in 1947 mentioned socialist achievements, for example, the liberation of people from power and wealth acquisition. yes, not... everything in the subsequent, especially khrushchev years , turned out as blissfully as we would like, but the period of bloodshed was gone irrevocably, since the end of the 1960s, the demonstration of religious freedom in the soviet union became part of the soviet culture of diplomacy, so at the world exhibition of sixty-seven in montreal, the soviet side, in addition to artistic works in the style of socialist realism, showed orthodox icons. the time has come for the pacification of the accumulation of forces; back in december 1980, the holy synod decided to begin preparations for the celebration of the future anniversary of the millennium of the baptism of russia. despite the fact that

there were still 8 whole years left before the great date, many church representatives thought through all the details of the great holiday in advance. it is significant that a year earlier, in october 1987 , a message from the holy synod of the russian orthodox church was published by his holiness the patriarch of moscow of all russia, pimin. summing up what seemed to be the final outcome of the painful confrontation with the soviet regime. 70 years ago the great october socialist revolution took place. it became a landmark event in the history of our country throughout the world. believers, including children of the russian orthodox church, who saw the revolution as an opportunity, selflessly took part in the struggle for democracy. implementation of their religious ideals. among the first decrees of the workers' christian government on peace and land was a decree on the separation of church and state. this democratic act legislated the principles of freedom of conscience and independence of the church from state institutions. in

the post-revolutionary years, through the intense efforts of our entire society, in which believers and non-believers worked fraternally shoulder to shoulder, in a historically short period of time the national economy, which had suffered great damage from the first world civil war. and a powerful socialist state was created. this was a feat of our people. carried out in the most difficult internal and external conditions. the treacherous attack of hitler's germany again demanded from every citizen the exertion of all his strength, perseverance and self-sacrifice. in the post-war period, believers, together with all the people , raised cities and villages from ruins, and restored the normal life of the state. there was not a family in the country that would not experience bitterness and irreparable loss. church pacified the sorrow of the suffering, strengthened the strength of the people of god towards the worthy. his civic vocation. with warm greetings and congratulations, we address the leaders of our soviet state with heartfelt wishes for success and god's

blessings on their efforts for the good. our beloved fatherland and world peace. we sincerely congratulate the brothers and sisters of the russian orthodox church on the great holiday of all our compatriots, we sincerely wish you an abundance of spiritual and physical strength, peace, happiness and prosperity. much about the lord love and blessing, patriarch of moscow of all arusia and pimen. members of the holy synod. in 1988, the celebration of the millennium since the baptism of russia was celebrated on a grand scale in many soviet cities. union. the most active events took place in moscow and leningrad. a live broadcast of the celebration was launched on central television. more than a thousand journalists were present at the celebration, 446 of whom were citizens of foreign countries. it should be noted that not a single celebration in the future had such a scale. throughout for weeks, festive services took place in all moscow churches. all night vigils took place on june 11, 1988.

the closing of the holiday took place on june 12; by that time , almost the entire hierarchy of orthodox churches in the world had gathered in the soviet capital; it was the largest christian gathering, which is difficult to compare with other events of a similar nature. at this point, it would seem that we should have stopped with all our disputes, but we did not stop. no matter how goboric the soviet may seem power, throughout its existence churches were opened, church life continued unabated. i don’t see any reason to talk about a thousand years of christianity in russia, for some reason cutting out 70 soviet years, why are all the services and prayers of these 70 years no longer counted? by the way, they mostly took place underground, quite openly. the authorities did not go to church, well

, they will be rewarded for their sins, however, how can the great efforts of thousands of russian priests of the soviet period be thrown off the brush? soviet power it was not the restoration of the patriarchate under lenin, nor the re-restoration of the patriarchate under stalin, nor the restoration of thousands of churches, nor the construction of new ones, nor the celebration throughout the country, throughout the world, of the millennium of the adoption of christianity. our faith was not interrupted, it lasted all these 70 years, this thread stretched, it was not torn, but why... we have chosen today, it seems to me, a position close not so much to patriarch sergius or patriarch pimen, but rather a position close to archbishop seraphim lukyanov, who ruled western europe the diocese of the russian orthodox church abroad in the forties, the author of the appeal to the faithful sons of russia, have you heard of this? he wrote to him: let the devilish gang

of villains who crucified russia perish. he wrote this from france, occupied by the fascists, by the way, may the masonic star, serbian and young, disappear from the face of the earth, may the cross of christ shine on his native land and throughout the universe, long live the great national russia, so he wrote, with only one this must be taken as an amendment, this is how he welcomed hitler’s campaign against the soviet russia, in these words, but what about the words of, say, the patriarch. it is precisely the soviet government that is now categorically not quoted or remembered, but about the satanic power and the red demonic rag, the proserb and the demonic hammer are repeated in plain sight, all this is not very clear to me. for me, if we call something heresy , it is the rejection of the hard-fought and begged symphony of the soviet state and the orthodox church in the 20th century, the symphony

of unity, which nevertheless took place, the heresy of exchanging this symphony for an attempt to create a new frenzied confrontation with an endless recounting of the insults inflicted by the soviet government on the church, utter insults to the leaders of the russian people, among other things, an insistent demand for mass repentance from russians, generally speaking, who were not at all to blame for either the abdication of the tsar or all subsequent events. heresy is the refusal to comprehend social or political evil, and today’s ways of combating this evil, for capitalism has already revealed its satanic essence, it is visible, this essence, for anti-sovietism and fascism are again marching shoulder to shoulder shoulder, and the goal of this offensive is again russia, russia itself as such, however, let’s end on a good note, here the soldiers from one of my units went to church, they were sent for a ribbon,