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00:00:01 Patriarch Kirill offering the Holy Cross at a monument glorifying the Red Antichrist

00:00:08

(It must be asked: how is it possible to honor the Holy New Martyrs of Russia while apparently also honoring the Soviet government which killed them?

This Soviet government was the only one in all of history to be anathematized by the Orthodox Church at the All-Russian Council of 1917-18.

The footage in this video occurred just a short year after Patriarch Kirill blessed a statue to the betrayer and persecutor of the Church Metropolitan and later “Patriarch” Sergius.)