In 1916, the primary argument among Russian Orthodox Priests was what number of buttons you were supposed to have down your Cassock, instead of trying to counter the godless atheism that infected Russia for 75 years.
“In World War One, the Jews looked at Germans as the Liberators.’
Irrelevant.
“That’s because the Russian Orthodox Church still believed in the Blood Libel that only the Jews killed Jesus.”
Still irrelevant.
“In 1916, the primary argument among Russian Orthodox Priests was what number of buttons you were supposed to have down your Cassock, instead of trying to counter the godless atheism that infected Russia for 75 years.”
They couldn’t counter something that did not exist. In 1916, Russia was more than a year away from the Bolshevik uprising and its atheism. Russia had some notable atheism before the late 19th century but that atheism was not necessarily anti-semitic.