If the current Kremlin regime completes its program of rehabilitating Stalin, it will spell disaster for the whole world

Fr. John, what do you mean by “rehabilitating” Stalin? Has Stalin’s reputation previously been tarnished among the Russian people, and is it now being whitewashed, broadbushed with state heroism?

“One has to realize what communism is,” insisted Father Seraphim Rose. “Not merely a power-mad political regime, but an ideological-religious system whose aim is to overthrow and supplant all other systems, most of all Christianity. Communism is actually a very powerful heresy whose central thesis . . . is chiliasm or millennialism: history is to reach its culmination in an indefinite state of earthly blessedness, a perfect mankind living in perfect peace and harmony.”

“Communism specifically attacked the lands which had most nearly retained their ancient Christian traditions – Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, etc. Propaganda portrayed Bolshevism as a political/social uprising, which is what gullible individuals throughout the world still imagine it to have been. But the “revolution” was far more than this – it was actually a battle against Christianity.”

This 92+ years battle against Christianity and humanity, started with the French Revolution, was strengthened by Marx and Engels, and had Lennin and Stalin as their main cheerleaders and perpetrators. Now these same Satanic ideas have infiltrated the mainstream and many of the same corrupt ideologies (sometimes disguised as other “movements”) are being embraced and passionately promoted by many in academia, the government, and even many of the Christian churches, including Orthodox ones too.

Moreover, at the end of World War II in 1945, Stalin ordered Russian troops to take control of several Eastern European countries, thus making these countries satellites of the Soviet Union. Fortunately, the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, and this resulted in freedom and independence for these countries.