Disgusting: Russian historian tore to tatters Patriarch Kirill’s pro-Putin speech

The sermon of the Patriarch Kirill, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, at a liturgy marking the 100th year of the execution of the Russian royal family “raises serious questions”. This opinion was expressed in an interview to the Obozrevatel by a Russian opposition politician, a well-known historian, Andrei Zubov.

First of all, he drew attention to the fact that the Patriarch, thinking about the crime committed 100 years ago, never mentioned either the specific perpatrators whose names are known, or those who gave orders to shoot Nicholas II – “Lenin, Trotsky, Sverdlov.” In addition, “the Patriarch carefully avoided any condemnation of the Communists, the Bolsheviks and the Chekists.”

Instead, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church accused the “intelligentsia and even some representatives of the Church that they seemed to step back from some traditional forms that were peculiar to Russia,” in particular for their striving for a better future, Zubov reminded. “as if the striving for a better future is something wrong,” he said.

“This is a very characteristic feature: the Patriarch understands that the current power of Russia is one and the same body with the authorities who killed the czar, his family and his relatives,” the opposition activist is convinced.

In his opinion, “Several times the Patriarch has resorted to blatant historical falsifications,” in particular, condemning the intelligentsia who “strived for a good life” and not mentioning that the State against which it was acting “committed a lot of criminal acts, the first of which is, of course, serfdom.”

“Speaking about 1918, this terrible murder, he first spoke of 2018 and that under no circumstances -- whatever the bad power is, no matter how much it steals, no matter how many people it killed -- we must humbly obey it, and only then happiness will come.”

“I think it's disgusting for human law, and the law of spiritual morality, Christian morality,” Zubov summed up.

Earlier, it became known that the Primate of the UOC-MP, Metropolitan Onufriy, attended the Divine Liturgy on the occasion of the 100th commemoration of the execution of the Russian royal family.