Defrocked ROCOR-MP priest received into the GOARCH's "Slavic Vicariate" -- per UOJ

[Barbara]

It was only natural that most of Rocor in Germany and countries like this would have supported the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

After all, they were emigres BECAUSE of the Bolshevik takeover of Russia. Though the RF is angry about this apparently to this day, not understanding this aspect at all, or refusing to try, it was a normal reaction. The Russian emigres hoped so much that the Soviet regime would be overthrown and they could then return home to a normal life in Russia.

It was terrible being a refugee, of course. Imagine the struggles, the language barriers, the wartime scarcity of food and essential items.

I don't blame them one bit, because no one knew how it was going to go : the Germans could easily have won and gotten rid of the Stalinist govt once and for all.

But Russia is a hard country to invade ! Nobody has been successful at that for hundreds of years.

The US and Nato should be remembering THAT REALITY instead of issuing bellicose statements and flat-out threats. These make the West look FOOLISH and ruled by primitive emotion instead of any degree of logic.

About Alexander Schmorell, so he was actually a member of Rocor ? Is that for SURE ? I had thought he was only getting going on his Orthodox life. I haven't read the book by Matushka Perekrestov, or I would know the answer !

Does anyone know IF that biography of Schmorell is completely accurate ? Or is embroidered to make the "martyr" sound more holy than he actually was ? He might have been a political martyr, but a religious one ?

What is the TRUTH of this situation ? While the name "The White Rose" is most assuredly catchy, I figured this was a gambit by Met Mark of Berlin to secure a "saint" for his own diocese, which was lacking any recent glorified ones, as far as I know.

[SavaBeljovic]

He was indeed a member of the ROCOR and a convinced Tsarist.

It's always been asserted that many members of the ROCOR supported the German invasion of the Soviet Union, but besides Ivan Ilyin, I'm not aware of anyone who explicitly said that they did.

Met. Anastasy of blessed memory blessed the invasion of the Soviet Union by the Wehrmacht, specifically citing Met. Antony's blessing for anyone who fought against the Soviets.

[Barbara]

How exactly Met Anastassy bless the Wehrmacht ? With an icon [if so, which one ?]
With public or private prayers ?

That's fascinating to hear !

Please inform us of whatever is known about that event !
Or maybe it was just informal rather than a real blessing ?