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From the History of Ancient Russia

Ideas of Jesus Christ about Love as a method of self-perfection for the sake of cognition of Unified Universal God-the-Father and the Mergence with Him, Who is Love, were first brought to the southern regions of Russia by apostle Andrew. And people did not have any reasons not to accept this Divine Teaching; they would get massively baptized by the personal disciple of Christ.

The second “baptist” of Russia was prince Ascold. He was baptized by the Greek and baptized a certain number of Russian into Judaic-Greek faith himself.

But the main tragedy of Russia began later. This is how the events unfolded.

The successors of Ruerick: Oleg — the guardian of his son Igor, then Igor himself, and after his death — his widow Olga — a family of extremely cruel, treacherous, aggressive, and greedy rulers.

Having created a strong fighting squad made up of scumbags, devoid of all philanthropic traits, whose favorite occupation was murder and brigandage, they used to undertake regular armed assaults against their neighbors.

After Oleg and then Igor had died, Olga took over as the head of the retinue, and as such she was expressing even more gruesome degree of cruelty and treachery: with Olga as the leader the squad not only would kill people for the sake of robbery, but also murdered in a sophisticated manner peace envoys from the neighbors and people of the captured settlements, burying or burning them alive [45,77].

Later she was baptized in Constantinople, but it did not have any positive impact either on her temper or her behavior.

The son of Igor and Olga — Svyatoslav — adopted the same kind of temper. He would pick a victim out of his neighbors and declare through a messenger: “I am willing to go against you!” — after which his ruthless squad would murder thousands of people for the sake of robbery or just for fun.

After Svyatoslav had died, his son Vladimir started to reign — he was the main “baptist” of Russia, who later was declared “equi-apostolic prince” for this “feat” by the Russian Orthodox Church’s officials…

When he grew up, he also became a bloodthirsty robber, like his ancestors. And following his grandmother’s example, he also accepted baptism from the Greek.

Having learned the way the church was operating in Byzantium, he realized that he could derive a great personal benefit in terms of robbing his subjects and neighbors from introducing this religious system in Russia and decided to “baptize” Russia into the faith of that grossly perverted pseudo-Christian sect, which existed at that time in the eastern part of the decaying Roman Empire. The “advantages” of the new faith for the atrocious ruler were evident: with its help he could totally suppress free-thinking, to “belittle” the people and “weight down” against them, to bend them to his will trough “priests”…

Did Vladimir become a Christian himself after he had been baptized? — No: he continued with brigandage and mass murders.

Another bloody crime of his was mass compulsory baptism of people, which was carried out by the same gang of murderers, who made up his squad.

Naturally, the population did not want to accept this devilish faith from the bloody executioner and the leader of gangsters. People would evade being baptized. Then Vladimir’s bandits started to issue wooden crosses to those who had already been baptized, which they were supposed to wear around their necks, so that to make it easier to identify those who were evading this ritual, to catch, torture, or kill them. (Since then there has existed the Orthodox custom of wearing crosses next to the skin — as a sign of belonging to this sect).

And later Vladimir and then his son Yaroslav, with an assistance of Greek “monks”, began to establish in Russia the same order that existed at this time in Western Europe.

One should not think that in the temples that were being built people were told about the Christ’s Teaching of Love and methods of cognizing God-the-Father. Of course, not. Instead, an idea was being drummed into their heads of the total sinfulness and insignificance of an ordinary man, of “saving” power of prayers for him performed by “priests”, who pray “for us” so hard, get tired and suffer so much because of this, that they need to be rewarded by money and other things for that.

Did the faith of this sect do any good to the Slavs, if the new “culture” and lifestyle were to be compared to those existed before the Vladimir’s “baptism”? — I am sure that it did not.

Even that Constantine (the monastic name — Cyril) and Methodius, Greek envoys, created written language for Russians, is a lie. Even before the “baptism” there existed as many as two types of alphabets: the “Glagolic alphabet” and that, which later began to be called the “Cyrillic alphabet”. Both were used for writing legends on the coins, princes’ credentials to the merchants, and even books. “The Book of Veles”, for instance, was finished during the time of the “Ascold’s baptism”. It was written in the same “Cyrillic alphabet” that existed, as it turns out, long time before Cyril.

The New Testament also was translated into Slavic written language (the same old “Cyrillic alphabet”) long before Cyril and Methodius arrived. And in this form it was found by Cyril in Khersones, which is recorded clearly in his biography [23,42,43].

But the Church that formed in Russia was reluctant to present the New Testament translated into Slavic to the believers. On the contrary, this scripture had been unavailable to the people for many centuries on the pretext that “lay-men” could misinterpret it; only priests and their superiors had access to its text. Unauthorized reading of the New Testament was punished by death [18].

Instead of the Christ’s preaching of tender love and humble thinking of oneself, this sect brought cruelty and violence to Russia, along with the destruction of all good spiritual traditions of the ancient Slavs. Those who were discontent with its activity and did not want to implicitly obey it, began to be called “sectarians” (by analogy with “heretics” in Europe). They were tortured with fire, torn on the “rack, burnt live, and impaled on sharp stakes.

As in Western Europe, sexual love was declared anathema on. The words that had sexual meaning were turned into a means of defiling other people — the ”mat” (the Russian obscene language — the translator’s note).

Mass executions of “sectarians” and “raskolniks” (the Old Believers) had been performed for centuries and intensified in particular by the end of the XIX century. Those who had doubts in the truth of Orthodoxy would get caught and thrown into special prisons that existed in monasteries — without a court trial, just based on a suspicion. There Orthodox executioners, following the example of the Inquisition, would torture them with fire and the “rack”, break their thighbones, crippling them, and burn them alive (not in public, though). “Raskolniks” were chopped off their right hands — so that they would not write. And torn off their tongues — so that they would not preach [1,18,19,30,59-61,68,90].

While doing this, the “Russian inquisitors” directly referred to the positive experience of their Byzantine colleagues in maintaining the stability of their “faith” [90].

Even when the Inquisition was abolished in the rest of Europe, the “Russian Inquisition” was still continuing — on the national scale and using the state “enforcement” structures — the hunt of the “sectarians”, i.e. those people who understood Christianity differently than this sect of monsters.

Mass executions of “sectarians” and “raskolniks” were taking place until 1917. At that time the whole country was filled with detectives, who hunted their victims. The property of the victims was confiscated, a part of it passing to the informers. The victims were tortured, “smoked” slowly over fire, burnt in specially constructed wooden frames, or left to die hanging on the hooks stuck in between their ribs [59].

Policemen, various state officials, and mayors used to “feed” on priests. And priests were pulling money and other means of subsistence from people — for “praying for forgiveness of their sins” and various chargeable rites…

If someone stopped attending Sunday service — this would instantly become a warning signal for the priests and their menials, an indication of a threat to their welfare. Such people would immediately become subject of police repression, or priests would stir the “faithful” against them. There are descriptions of cases of mass murders of “sectarian” families by crowds of such “faithful”, stirred up against them by village priests [18,61].

Priests were turned into police detective by special state decrees: they were obliged to inform the authorities of everything that their parishioners reported to them at the confession [30].

The “seduction from Orthodoxy” was persecuted as a criminal case [30].

Marriages of people who did not marry in church were considered illegitimate. Authorities would take children away from such parents, sometimes even from the entire communities of non-Orthodox believers. Those children received the stigma of “bastards” (“illegitimate children”) for life and were deprived of all rights, even the right to have parents [61].

The persecutions went so far that it was not even allowed to bury dead “raskolniks” on the “land of Orthodox Russia”. Their corpses were appointed special guards and putrefied for weeks [19].

Priests forced people to drink hard. “Monks” drank hard as well [24,77,81,90]. If someone refused to drink — this was qualified as “sectarianism”, and the man would become an enemy and was persecuted by the police [18].

S.M.Solovyov describes the Russian reality of that time as follows: “…You will not find such a disgraceful drunkenness neither with Germans, nor with other Slavs, — nowhere, except for the Russian state: men and women, laymen and clergymen are wallowing in mud in the streets, some die of alcoholism” [77].

An Englishman Richard Chansler, who visited Russia, describes his impression of the Orthodox priesthood as follows: “As for debauchery and drunkenness, there is not anything like this in the entire world, and in terms of extortion — these are the most disgusting people under the sun” [90].

Those horrible events of the Russian history produced many heroes-martyrs — true Christians, who preferred tortures and death to accepting — even on the outside — this devilish faith.

In particular, there are descriptions of cases, when Orthodox soldiers or Cossacks surrounded a settlement of “sectarians”, who thus were doomed to prolonged tortures and burning alive, and the people would make fires themselves and enter into them by the whole families… [60].

“It is a wonder, why they do not want to come to understanding! With fire, with the whip, and with the gibbet they want to establish faith! Which apostles taught so? I do not know. My Christ did not order the apostles to teach like that, to bring people to faith with fire, with the whip, and with the gibbet” — wrote archpriest Avakum, who was later burnt alive together with his associates [1,60].

Some other clergymen would rebel, — for instance, hesychasts Nil Sorsky and Maxim Grek, who attempted to initiate a movement of “non-grabbers” among the priests and monks. They opposed the bloody atrocities that the church was committing and the parasitism of priests and monks and tried to bring them back to the Teaching of Jesus Christ. But they and their followers also got repressed by the church as a result: some were burnt, some sentenced for life in the monastic prisons… [90].

Did it resemble Christianity in any way? — No, not a bit.

During the “bloody Sunday” in 1905, when unarmed people (men, women, and children) marched carrying portraits of the tsar and icons in the capital of the Russian Empire in the direction of the Dvortsovaya square in order to address the tsar, — Orthodox Cossacks were slashing them with sabers in all parts of the city; after that Orthodox soldiers were shooting the survivors. Just children’s corpses were measured by many carriages. Thousands of innocent people died or were crippled that day… [24].

At that time the entire population was divided into two camps: priest-executioners with their “faithful”, headed by the tsar and supported by the punitive state machinery on one side, and on the other side — their victims, who either disguised themselves as the “faithful”, or did not put up with the regime and became heroic martyrs.

The “bloody Sunday” predetermined the destiny of the Russian autocracy and Orthodoxy. 1917 brought two coups. Bolsheviks shot the tsar together with his family and drowned and shot a lot of priests, hated by people. The monastery on the Solovki islands and several others, where victims of Orthodoxy were tortured before, now were turned into jails for former priests [28].

The people did not support the dominating church, and it was totally destroyed together with its appendix — the autocracy.