March 8, 2002, Moscow, 8.59 AM
It's a nightmare: Patriarch Alexy sanctified on March 6 special church for
FSB, i.e. for the organization, founded by Lenin and Dzershinsky to struggle with
capitalism and Christianity. The portraits of Dzershinsky are still everywhere
in the offices of FSB ("Lubyanka" it is called in Russia, because the
official titles can change, but the place is one and the same.) Putin and other
try to combine fauthfullness to the spirit of Bolshevism (to make people happy
against their will, this is the essense of this spirit) and to the spirit of Russian
Orthodoxy. What is most ironic: the church is dedicated to Sofia the Wisdom of
God. The veneration of this abstract qulaity of Creator is one of the most enigmatic
features of Byzantine theology, and I am not the great enthusiast of it. The irony
is that Lubyanka-KGB-FSB pretends to be the most well-informed, most wise and
all-penetrating organisation in Russia. Lubyanka for Kremlin is what Sofia is
to God.
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