Thank you for having this guest. I'm a Ukrainian American Catholic and the repressions my grandparents faced in Ukraine(having to have secret church services in the woods)I found this fascinating.

One of the most enlightening guests in a fantastic series of guests. Thank you.

Some of these MAGA types in the US really do need to see this

Extremely important conversation! It wouldn’t be a bad idea to send those who believe in russian spirituality to the russian federation . And leave them there. Thank you, Jonathan and Taras! 👍👍👍💙💛👏👏

Excellent presentation of a very complex issue. Recommend to listen to this gentleman who has succeeded to clearly define the basics. Hard to understand what has happened since 2014 in Ukraine. Moreover, there's no religious liberty in Russia beyond the Russian Orthodox Church.

Thanks. Glory to Ukraine. God Bless Ukraine and her people. 🇺🇦🇺🇸

Jonathan, we owe a debt of gratitude to you, for keeping us posted...have a great weekend everyone...E...

The very same is with Serbian orthodox church. Running military camps for children and teen agers, with instructors from Russia. The "best" trainees were sent to the similar military camps in Russia afterwards.

This is not a "church". As an Orthodox myself, I can assure you this is pure and mere Ethnophyletism, or phyletist religious nationalism, not a general Slavic Ethnophyletism, but a special russian one. In Orthodoxy Ethnophyletism is considered to be among the worse modern day HERESIES. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyletism

Thank you Jonathan for another interesting interview.

...and the parade of fantastic guests goes on and on....Slava Ukraini from Belgium.

Very good. It's very salutary to hear in such well-informed detail how weird the Russian religious narrative is. Thanks again for all your efforts.

Imagine declaring a holy war because some guy wants to steal land instead of develop their own.

I have been saying this for many years, but Orthodox people have been shouting me down. They are all silent now.

Thanks, Jonathan. Slava Ukraine.

Fascination interview. I learned a lot and the penny dropped for me. Thank you.

russian orthodox church is KGB they are told what to say and do

Super fascinating discussion. Thanks for bringing Taras on to share his deep knowledge on this topic. Really interesting. Thanks Jonathan!

Very interesting and informative article. Thanks. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

Your guests are always interesting but Tara is fascinating. He has opened in my mind a whole new perspective on this conflict. The "religious" angle had never crossed my mind. Thank you so much for that.

I love listening to your insightful interviews

Thank you, Jonathan. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Back in circa 1967-1968, I attended the funeral of Foma Krigin, a White Russian, in Monmouth County, NJ. A friend of Mrs. Elizabeth Warawka drove her, my mother, and me to the funeral and the luncheon afterward. We sat at one table, and Foma Krigin's friends sat at the other table. Mrs. Shukoff and my mother were scandalized that Foma had been buried in a cardboard. coffin. What had happened to Foma's savings that he had set aside for his friends to bury him? His friends had pocketed Foma's funeral money, and there was nothing anybody could do about it. Then I asked my elders why two Russian Orthodox Churches were built nextdoor to the cemetery. My elders explained that one was the White Russian Orthodox Church, and the other was the Communist Red Russian Church. I do not know whether the White Russian Orthodox Church still exists in the USA, but I do not doubt that Putin's Red Russian Orthodox Church is still operating in the USA.

Fascinating. Russian political culture today reminds me of the LOVE DEATH ROBOTS piece. They have demons.

Thank you, Jonathan and Taras Kuzio, for this very interesting conversation. Silicon Curtain has brought (together) the most interesting voices from and on Ukraine. Thank you, Jonathan, for all your hard work, very much appreciated. 🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

Be back later to watch...thank you !

Thank you for having this guest.

That does it ! Ima by won ov yer buks… Thanks as always , Mr Curtain.

Thanks .

This was a good perspective and insight. More pieces of the puzzle brought together on the events and history that have evolved in this part of the world. 🎉 ✊🏻🇺🇦

Extremely interesting and enlightening talk.

Thanks Jonathan for another great stream. Very enlightening. Just gotto "love" russki mir

Best interviews! Great work JF🙏🇺🇦👏

Fascinating as usual

Another very interesting interview, thank you Jonathan and your very enlightened guest

Jonathan gives his guests plenty of room for them to give us their insights. Learnt a lot from this episode. Thankx

Very informative

fantastic conversation, as usual. thank you!

✨Merci!✨

Another fine guest and wonderful interview.

Another great interview Jonathan, thank you.

Serbian orthodox church was doing same during Serbian occupation of parts of Croatia and Bosnia 1991-1995!

Another skillful interview with this excellent guest,ive just rewatched. Thankyou & Cheers! Slava Ukraini!💙💛

Thank you - A great and very informative episode

Reminder. Cardinal Kirill the head of the Russian Orthodox Church was once Vladimir Putin's senior officer in the KGB

Very interesting interview, thanks!

Another great interview, thanks Jonathan, I wish that the understanding I get of Russia would surprise me, but everything I learn makes me realize that the Russian "weltschauug" is perhaps worse than I imagined. But, the last comment, about Russia being out of it's time surely warrents a historian, an expert in medieval history, to compare modern day Russia to those times, and explain if, and why, Russia never moved on to a modern era as was the case in " The West".

Christian Nationalists in the US need to see this

I believe the religeous undertones in the Russian war with Ukraine is greatly under appreciated and under reported....

I am sharing this with others. This is one of the most interesting and insightful talks I have heard about Ukraine and Russia. It's right up there with Tim Snyder.

That was very interesting, and about a topic on which I am underinformed. I'm a little bit more informed on it by now, I guess!

Where do you find the fabulous folks for your impeccable interviews? I can always depend on SC for de-Putinized coverage of important geopolitical matters. We don’t have this in DC. I can’t even listen to vapid American media anymore. Much Respect from Tracy the Latvian American ❤️‍🔥

Finally I have a logical and I feel accurate explanation of Russia/ Putins basic motives..

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Another most interesting interview.

Kudos on your contents very informative. But if you can cut the introduction shorter and time the interviews to thirty minutes I’m sure you’d get more hits. A fan in U.S.A.🇺🇸

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Excellent talk everything is true of what he said

Long live the West! SLAVA UKRAINE! from Italy ❤❤

Very accurate.

Identical situation with the Church of Serbia in the surrounding countries lile Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Kosova.

The FSB/Putin have seen how iran holds power through the grip of a reasonably small devote religious zealots and the brutality that zealots will inflict on the 'others' knows no bounds' even the western church lead the way in its brutal treatments and torture of the 'others' in the dark ages when the church ruled supreme.

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FSB and Russian Orthodox Church are both branches of Russian siloviki. Americans, Europeans, Aisians, South Americans see the church as separate from the state. In Russia, they are bound together. Under Ivan the terrible the opritchniki were blessed by the patriarchs. Putin is using this example consciously.

The world is a wonderful place!

The rushist empire is starting to crumble

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So true.

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I’m curious about the rus, orth. church outside of russia (ROCOR)Are they also connected to the kremlin? Can anyone direct me to some information concerning this?

Exactly the same as the equivalent entity here in the US. I'll leave it at that.

During 1990:es I attended an Russian Ortodox church in Western Europe. The priests called blessings for Kirill. Now, so many years later, I feel tainted by the blod-letting he is promoting in Ukraine.

The independence of protestant churches is a rather recent status. In protestant territories of Europe the rulers or the ruling establishment were closely connected if not ruling the state's church. This state changed only after WW Ii.

Haven't even watched yet, the Kremlin trolls will be apoplectic.. 😅

Two comments: First, the Orthodox Church does not operate on a papal-type hierarchy, but on a collegial template, with the Ecumenical Patriarch (Bartholomew of Constantinople) as "first among equals"; this lends to each region not being subject to the kinds of universal decrees one sees in the Roman Catholic Church. (which, it must be said, excommunicated the East in 1054 in a storm of accusations and theological disagreements). Second, it is of utmost importance to NOT presume that just because the Russian patriarchate has descended to the utmost depths of corruption, ALL local/regional Orthodox Churches have ALSO descended into that horrible condition.

Thank you for a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the churches in Eastern Europe. Deep roots, many vectors of influence.

there are no ukrainians. there's no taiwan. there were no Tutsi. and it goes on... terrible.

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Look at the case of Yurii Kerpatenko. It's a perfect example of what occupied territories can expect from the Russians.

“The end of World War II brought new sorrows when Russians occupied Romania and the country became Communist. In 1945 the Communists organized a “Congress of Cults,” a meeting where religious leaders were expected to speak in support of the new atheistic government. Many did. Sabina urged her husband to wipe the shame from the face of Jesus by refusing. Wurmbrand reminded her that if he did, she would lose her husband. Sabina replied, “I don’t need a coward for a husband.” And so Wurmbrand declared before four thousand delegates that it was their duty to glorify God and Christ. He returned home to lead his underground church and promote the gospel among Romania’s Russian invaders. He even smuggled Bibles into Russia, disguised as Communist propaganda. And then he disappeared. On this day, February 29, 1948, as Wurmbrand walked to church to prepare for morning service, two men hustled him into a van and drove away. He was imprisoned under a pseudonym for eight and one half years and his wife and remaining son, Mihai,did not know where he was or even whether he was alive. Government agents, posing as ex-prisoners, told Sabina they had witnessed her husband’s funeral in the Communist prison. Those were years of torture and brainwashing. For seventeen hours a day, repetitious phrases were dinned into his ears: “Communism is good. Christianity is stupid! Give up. Give up!” His captors carved and burned his body and broke many of his bones. Sabina also was brutalized for three years, imprisoned and forced to work at digging a canal. Mihai was forced to live on the streets during part of this time. Miraculously, all three survived. Released, the Wurmbrands immediately returned to secret church work. Soon Wurmbrand was sent back to prison.”……

What religious leaders haven't been involved in genocide ?!

Stalimir Putler. He's all in once.

Thank-you. Great conversation.

Are they considered christian church?

BYZANTIUM was Rome, not Moscow. Do I have to tag Timothy Snyder??

A cult of the state.

Tell that to the Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia

So if Ukraine is really just Russia, when will Russia release Muslim peoples to form their own states with self-determination?

ORCodox

Tucker Carlson occuzed Zelensky in oppressing orthodox clerics

Taras screams *expert*

lol a church? just wagner in fancy robes walking around.

This will age like milk.

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i wonder what he thinks about what israel is doing in Gaza.

The guest is more an expert in his mind than in reality. I don't believe that many American evangelicals believe that Russia is an especially spiritual nation. They do, however, see that many laws in Russia are closer to what they would want in the U.S., especially compared to the general views of Europe in regards to such social issues as homosexuality, abortion and trans people.