Virgin Mother of God, banish Putin! : The Russian Orthodox Church needs its own ‘special operation’ to demilitarise, desovietise and denazify
2023
Abstract
The text deals with the militarization of Russian Orthodoxy, the pseudo-religious cult of the "holy" Great Patriotic War (WWII) and their influence on the unleashing of Russian aggression against Ukraine. It also focuses on the impact of Russian aggression on Ukrainian Orthodoxy.
The chapter also demonstrates the above phenomena by using the example of the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces near the town of Kubinka near Moscow, which was completed in 2020.