>>17821572 (OP)>The Christ-loving Leader of the German people called on his victorious army to a new struggle, to that struggle that we have long been longing for — to the consecrated struggle against the theomachists, executioners and rapists who have settled in the Moscow Kremlin [...] A new crusade has truly begun in the name of saving peoples from the power of Antichrist [...] Finally our faith is justified! [...] Therefore, as the First Hierarch of the Orthodox Church in Germany, I appeal to you. Be participants in a new struggle, for this struggle is your struggle; this is a continuation of the struggle that was begun as early as 1917 — but alas!Metropolitan Seraphim Lade, of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad on Adolf Hitler
>This pseudo-church has been twice anathematized. His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon and the All-Russian Church Sobor anathematized the Communists and all their collaborators. This dread anathema has not been lifted till this day and remains in force, since it can be lifted only by a similar All-Russian Church Sobor, as the canonical supreme ecclesiastical authority. And a terrifying thing happened in 1927, when the head of the Church, Metropolitan Sergius, by his infamous and apostate Declaration, subjected the Russian Church to the Bolsheviks and proclaimed collaboration with them. And thus in a most exact sense was fulfilled the expression in the prayer at the beginning of Confession: having fallen under their own anathema! For in 1918 the Church anathematized all the confederates of Communism, while in 1927 she herself joined the camp of these collaborators and began to laud the red, God-having regime to laud the red beast spoken of in the Apocalypse.Metropolitan Philaret of New York, of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
