Anton Oreh: "Sobering up at the training ground"

“I was surprised by the speech of Metropolitan Hilarion in the program of Vladimir Pozner. I, of course, will subscribe to every word of the metropolitan about Stalin. It was not the words that surprised me. I was surprised by the very fact of such a speech by not the last person in the Orthodox church hierarchy. The church bureaucracy has recently been where Between obscurantism and demonism, it’s strange to hear reasonable words from its representatives.

I would be less surprised if one of the hierarchs acquitted Stalin and started a record about the restoration of the patriarchate and about the relief to believers sent down by this “spiritual monster,” as Hilarion called him.”