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It is a fact that many Tsarist Russians [including the archbishop of the "Russian Orthodox Church in Exile" headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia] did support Hitler's overthrown of Bolshevik Russia... and many Russians [including Cossacks] also fought along side Germans to try to liberate their homeland from the Bolsheviks.
In the 1930s while Stalin and his atheist Bolsheviks were destroying churches and murdering millions of Christians in Russia, in 1938 Hitler helped Russians [who had fled Russia for Germany] build a Russian Orthodox church in Berlin.
During the early part of the war, in Russian lands already liberated by Germans, Russians began to rebuild churches that Bolsheivks had destroyed.
Since this is Easter weekend... this quote seems appropriate for this topic:
The day that it (the Russian people) has been waiting for has come, and it is now truly rising from the dead in those places where the courageous German sword has succeeded in severing its fetters… Both ancient Kiev , and much-suffering Smolensk and Pskov are radiantly celebrating their deliverance as if from the depths of hell. The liberated part of the Russian people everywhere has already begun to chant: ‘Christ is risen!'
Archbishop Anastasy [Russian Orthodox Church in Exile]
Paschal 1942
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