The patriarch and the president reinforce each other’s conviction that the two-year-old war in Ukraine is necessary to prevent a decadent West imposing its depraved liberal values on Russia.
08 February 2024, The Tablet
Putin’s holy war
Soviet politics and the Russian Orthodox Church
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is a staunch critic of a Western-induced ‘cultural miasma’. Records have shown his links to the KGB .
photos:alamy/sipa usa, Artem Priakhin
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