https://moscowmigrant.com/tags/kirill/Recent content in Kirill on MoscowMigrantHugoenWed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-orthodox-church-as-the-engine-of-the-war/Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-orthodox-church-as-the-engine-of-the-war/The comfortable view holds that the Russian Orthodox Church is a faith the regime merely co-opts. The truth is harder: the Moscow Patriarchate in its present form is a security-service fabrication, rebuilt by Stalin's NKVD and vetted by the organs ever since — and it now supplies the invasion with its sacred justification, recasting aggression as holy war, telling soldiers that killing washes away sin, and building a state cult of death. But the engine is failing with the empire it serves.