The relics of the power

The First Deputy Head of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church with society and the media, one of the leading secular ideologists of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alexander Shchipkov, called the proposal to reburial Lenin’s body extremely untimely. So he reacted to the appeal of the Bishop Synod of the Russian Foreign Church, who urged in connection with the centenary of the revolution in Russia to free the Russian cities from the monuments to Lenin, and Red Square from his impact corpse. The Bishop Synod "foreigners" expressed confidence that "the liberation of the Red Square from the remains of the chief persecutor and tormentor of the twentieth century and the crushing of the monuments set by him" will "become" one of the symbols of the reconciliation of the Russian people with the Lord. "

Shchipkov has his own understanding of reconciliation with the Lord. His Lord is not in heaven and not even in pure lane, but in the Kremlin, and the Russian people should take into account the wishes of the "collector of land". According to the church official, the question of the reburial of the body of Lenin can be posed "not earlier than the campaign for decommunization and desevetization in the post -Soviet space. And subsequently raising this issue, we are obliged to proceed from religious rather than political reasons."

But Shchipkov himself, of course, proceeds for political reasons. Because the "decompaning campaign" does not take place in the abstract post -Soviet space, but in Ukrainian cities and villages. The Ukrainians themselves got rid of the monuments to Lenin, not asking either the authorities or priests. They got rid of because they saw the symbols of oppression in these monuments. But now there is a question of what is the common Bolshevik or Alien Imperial?

For such as Shchipkov, the question is clear - "Bandera" get rid of the Russian presence. Monuments to Lenin, generously attacked in all cities and weights of the former empire, are symbols of this presence. And if you overthrow them, and even more so to bury the pharaoh body, the Russians themselves will become, this will mean their own rejection of the empire. Own rejection of the ability to depress on which the Russian land stood and will stand. Well, what does "reconciliation with the Lord" have to do with it?

In the eyes of Shchipkov and like him, not only members of the Bishop Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad, but the Lord himself - the allies of the "Bandera". Because, if we reasoned in a child, we will have to admit that theft in the Crimea and tanks in the Donbass is a continuation of Bolshevik godlessness. And for the champions of this godlessness there is nothing negative in it, because only it made it possible to return the imperial territories, bombarded in the corners of the rebellious slaves of the "older brother".

From the point of view of the mass Russian viewer, from the point of view of all kinds of tweezers and other Dugins, reconciliation with the Lord - this was the Soviet Union. And it is precisely this distorted picture of the world that allows them to perceive the "main persecutor and tormentor of the twentieth century" as the first "collector of Russian lands", and the comrades of Stalin and Putin as worthy of his successors. It is this distorted picture that does not allow us to see that the empire “restored” by the Bolsheviks and picked up by Putin resembles not a real state, but a thieves' raspberry. And the church is not so much the focus of faith and compassion, but the Flood of Ilyich shocked with domes.