An Interview with an Ex-KGB Agent on ROCOR-MP union plans

[Kollyvas]

Evlogeite.
This thread is reminiscent of other accounts which are unannotated and is far from being the "whole story." From my studies and contacts, I can add that the kgb, now the fsb et al, with the accession of brezhnev became increasingly aware of its status as imperio in imperium, for the rest of the government was stagnant and wallowing in corruption and decadence. This was the period of "zastoi," stagnation, which lasts through yeltsin. In this environment the kgb began to ask itself fundamental questions:
a). What is the direction of our state?
b). Which national interest do we serve?
c). How can we best promote the integrity, sovereignty, stability, and security of the nation?
d). Does the present ideology serve the nation and what is the prognosis of its survival?
e). How do we survive and maintain/broaden our power?
The poignancy of these queries brought them to the realization that the paradigm of marxism-leninism could never become effectuated and that the fatigue of the nation and impatience with this ideology would eventually coalesce. stalinism died and was discredited, but certain religious and national aspects of it could be integrated in a strong state and the citizenry could be motivated. What needed to be reconciled were the inherent human needs of individualism, creativity, reward, recognition, prosperity, freedom, spirituality, concerns dialectical materialism addressed only in crude and repressive ways. And strains in the kgb began to plan for a burial of the old order and a birth of a new state--ask yourselves how gorbachev fell without a bullet being fired. Whither? greed and capital and control of resources? OR A centralized Russian & Orthodox state? What they did not want was western decadence comprised of consumerism, sensualism and inherently amoral nihlism-existentialism. (That they have to contend with now.) Such has been the struggle until now with these two trends competing amongst one another. Even in the successor states, "nationalities & confessions" may change, but the model remains the same. Is the current kgb model inimical to Orthodoxy? It supports the Church better than the secular humanist consumerism/sensualism of the west. What makes it a threat is the fact that THEY control the tempo of social movements and try to regulate the flows of "democracy." Now, rocor's inclusion here is unwarranted. In truth, rocor offers nothing to the new Russia except a distant and proud relative in patched clothing. You see, pockets of Holy Russia always survived in Russia and were united with the Mother Church. Nostalgia. The only reason for rocor inclusion is symbolic--it represents an attempt at healing the wounds of the past and reintegrating ONE Russia back into its Faith and its history and securing a future strong Russia. Some scoff that homo sovieticus isn't to be culled and the old muzhik restored, but this purism reminiscent of Stenka Razin was rejected long ago--Russia deals with the population history and God presents it with, and that is our challenge: crystalizing pure Orthodoxy in a strong moral society whose testament to the nations is a bulwark against entropy and a path of prosperity and spiritual brilliance. That is the emerging Russian ideology, and even though it may have been penned in the cabinets of the kgb, it is patriotic and Russian and supportive of Orthodoxy.
In the LOVE of Christ,
Rostislav Mikhailovich Malleev-Pokrovsky