Kirill Blames Tsar Nicholas II’s Martyrdom on the West

AsiaNews ^ | 7/18/18 | Vladimir Rozanskij

[marshmallow]

The Patriarch of Moscow led a pilgrimage to the sites where the tsar and his family were murdered. The revolution is rooted in western ideas of progress and well-being. Like Dostoevsky, Kirill calls for the rejection of “temptations coming from abroad".

Moscow (AsiaNews) – Last Monday night (16 July), the Patriarch of Moscow Kirill (Gundyayev) led the pilgrimage to the places where Tsar Nicholas II and his family met their martyrdom, together with the bishops gathered for a special session of the Synod.

The Solemnity had been prepared to mark the 1,030th anniversary of the Baptism of Kievan Rus', which according to the patriarch was "the event that marked a turning point in the history of the Slavic peoples, indicating the way of Slavic civilisation, from the darkness of false ideals to the revelation of divine truth."

In his homily in Yekaterinburg, at the start of the ceremonies, the patriarch stressed that the assassination of the tsar was "the consequence of the pernicious influence of a philosophy coming from abroad, which led to the denial of God, the forgetting of the commandments and the loss of a true spiritual relationship with the Church."

According to Kirill, such influence is rooted in the reckless anxieties of humanity for the progress of their material conditions. By asking "When did all this happen, and why did it happen?" he generally pointed the finger at the centuries of so many cultural and social revolutions in the Western world, "until at some point in history it is as if the train derailed when the driver no longer controlled the speed on a dangerous curve, and three himself towards the catastrophe."

According to the patriarch, the Russian people were hit by the crazy train "when thoughts foreign to us, foreign ideals, alien minds, elaborated by political and.....

[katana]

In so many words, my take is that’s exactly who he’s blaming. “Foreign ideas” equals “Karl Marx” equals “Jews”. Never underestimate how deeply Antisemitism runs in Europe still.

[ought-six]

“The Czar’s family was not allowed to flee to Britain, because of potential bad PR for the royal family, is what I’ve read.”

There was also a plan to have them exiled to Canada (which was part of the British Empire), but it never got beyond the discussion stage. Actually, going to Canada made quite a bit of sense, when one thinks about it.

[cranked]

I am sure that Lenin and company had nothing to do with it, huh KirillIdiot!?

[Conan the Librarian]

You, of course, mean Nikki, Georgie and Willie. That is how they addressed each other in private.

The first chapters of “The Guns of August” is quite revealing.