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Temple of Victory over the Church

June 15, 2020 Alexander Golts

A gloomy joke went to the “dashing 90s” in Moscow: those who undertook to build capitalism in Russia, by virtue of their education, built it as it was described in Soviet textbooks of political economy-wild and barbaric. With all the ensuing consequences. On June 14, one could see which temple could build those who regularly received the tests of scientific atheism regularly.

In the Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Rest “Patriot” in Kubinka near Moscow, the Patriarchal Cathedral was solemnly consecrated in honor of the resurrection of Christ-the main temple of the armed forces. This temple was built in a record two years. The decision on construction was made in 2018, then when the Main Military-Political Administration appeared in the Ministry of Defense. I must say that the generals who headed him did not hide too much that they intend to engage in the creation of the ideology of the entire Russian state. The main military temple is the materialized embodiment of this ideology, which is a mixture of myths about the Great Patriotic War and the rituals of Orthodoxy. This has only an indirect attitude towards religion. This is a temple for which God is not Jesus, but the state in its modern embodiment. It was not for nothing that they appeared there - and after the scandal they were removed - mosaics with the faces of the current leaders of the party and government, as well as Joseph Stalin.

Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu quite frankly said: “I am absolutely sure that all those who will come here will recall past exploits and prepare for the future.” A simple thought that, in general, go to the church to pray, participate in the sacraments (for example, communion), did not appear in the head of the head of the military department.

The Patriarch remembered God - the situation obliges. In his sermon, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church noted that the temple became one of the symbols of the historical turn of the people and its armed forces to faith, "from meaningless being to meaningful." At the same time, he did not explain why the victory, which we are so strained to be proud, happened just during the period of “senseless being”. However, he quickly turned on a purely earthly and told the gathered joyful news. Cyril decided to assume the responsibilities of the abbot of the main military temple: “I will have a special care for the accomplishment of worship and about pastoral activities, which will be performed in the aisles of this temple, mindful of the great significance, the role that the armed forces, the Russian army, the Navy and Russian aviation have for our people.” Note that earlier the rector of the temple was named the chairman of the Synodal Department for interaction with the armed forces and law enforcement agencies, Bishop Klinsky Stefan. Apparently, Cyril realized that a lot would be connected with the temple, going beyond the departmental framework ...

In the design of the Main Military Church, militarism triumphs, and not at all faith. Giant images of orders, all kinds of battle scenes completely “crushed” icons. And these icons are very specific. The website of the Ministry of Defense reports: “The icons of the military of the troops and types of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were sent to the Church of the Resurrection of Christ ... where they will be established in the corresponding priority (as in the text. Propagandists are not scientific - A.G.). Among them are the faces of the heavenly patron of the aerospace forces and the airborne troops of the Holy Prophet of the Elijah, the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called-the heavenly patron saint of the Navy, the Holy Prince of the Ground Forces of the Ground Forces, the Holy Barbar of the Martyr, the Patroness of the Strategic Mountain Mikhail-the heavenly patron saint of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Administration of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the icon of St. Joseph Volotsky-the heavenly patron of the troops of the material and technical support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. " One can only guess why Goma and Tyloviks received saints, and other departments of the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense have no such ones. I would venture to assume that in the holy there are no such number of saints as in our army of governing bodies. It should also be evaluated by the subtle humor of those who appointed Joseph Volotsky by the patron saint of the quartermaster, remembering, obviously, his controversy with non -possessors ...

It is unlikely that in such a temple there will someday “prayer”-it simply does not imply communicating with God. Instinctively, bosses feel this emptiness. And they are in a hurry to fill it with all kinds of garbage. Any official description of the temple contains information that “in honor of the year of the end of the war, the diameter of the drum of the main dome is 19 meters 45 centimeters. The 75-meter height of the belfry symbolizes 75 years from Victory, and 1418 days and nights of the Great Patriotic War reflected both in the height of small domes-14 meters 18 centimeters and in the length of the Memory Road of the Memory Complex-1418 steps. In addition, 1418 square meters. meters - the area of ​​the stained glass of the cathedral. The number of icons in the iconostasis - 48 - corresponds to the number of months of the war. The iconostasis was inlaid with a 431 precious and semi -lens stone - the same number of rifle divisions were in the Red Army by the time the Great Patriotic War was completed. ”

The idea to reflect in the appearance of the Church of the Symbols of Victory belongs to the Minister of Defense of Russia, Army General Sergei Shoigu, the Red Star reports. The fact that all this near -term bondage has nothing to do with the Orthodox tradition, the minister was obviously afraid to report.

Further more. In the Memory Museum near the temple, some “relics” will be stored, the Zvezda Zvezda, Deputy Minister Timur Ivanov, reports. And he calls them: “There are unique things up to Hitler’s costume, which has been preserved so far. There is Hitler's cap, there are unique exhibits that have never previously been put on overall view. Now there is an opportunity that before that was in the storerooms and there were not enough exhibition areas, we [placed] everything there, ”Ivanov said.

These people seem to be completely absent of any moral feeling. At every step they swear at the fidelity of the memory of the heroes. And then they are placed in a museum dedicated to the victory, Fuhrer's cap. And what, a unique exhibit. Like, we have a kunstkamera here ...

By and large, there is no much difference in their heads. That the temple, that the park of culture and rest, that Kunstkamera is all one.

Photo: 1-2. 06/14/2020. The consecration of the main temple of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Kubinka. Andrey Rusov/press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation/TASS