29.05.2025, Aleksandrovskoye.
If a moderate strengthening of the Christian idea had taken place within the Communist ideology instead of the persecution against the church under Khrushchev, the Soviet Union would not only have escaped its collapse, but it would also have become the number one country, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, philosopher and political scientist Sergey Kurginyan said on May 9 in his video address on the Victory Day.
Kurginyan noted that Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro supported and developed the Liberation Theology, which linked Christianity and Communism. According to the founders of the Liberation Theology, the role of the church cannot be reduced to charity, and the society needs to be rearranged according to the teaching of Christ. Further, the clergymen concluded that such a rearrangement of the society was impossible without the class struggle and Marxism.
The political scientist explained that Christianity bore a huge potential of humanism, which was adopted by revolutionaries who, even denying Christianity, “still used all its metaphysical power, all its patterns, and thus they joined it.”
Without metaphysics, the secular ideology “cooled down” after several generations, its members became philistines, and it ruined the Soviet project that gave hope to the whole humanity.
Kurginyan stressed that if the Soviet establishment, which remained capable even under Khrushchev, had adopted what Castro was doing, our country would have been number one on the globe today.
However, an inexplicable persecution of the church began under Khrushchev instead.
“There are mysterious dark events, but no mysterious dark event is as mysterious as the persecution against the church under Khrushchev,” the leader of Essence of Time said.
He noted that the persecution against the church can be explained in the early Soviet period, because then it was a political persecution as the church was against the Soviet system, it supported the Interim Government, etc. However, the policy of the Bolsheviks, many of whom were Old Believers, and then the Great Patriotic War, changed the situation dramatically.
“But later we had a great war, and the church perfectly cooperated, and the government restored the Patriarch’s office, and it moved the capital to Moscow,” Kurginyan reminded. He stressed that it removed “everything anti-Christian, or, so to say, bureaucratized Christian, that existed under the Romanovs rule.”
Kurginyan reminded the words of Patriarch Kirill that the church never was under such a threat as it was under Aleksandr I.
“And he is absolutely right. Prince Golitsyn was not a Suslov, he was tougher. So, it was later, with Kornilov, Nakhimov, Suvorov etc. Why the hell did they start all that Khrushchev’s persecution against the church when it was absolutely loyal and cooperating?” Kurginyan rhetorically asked.
The political scientist stressed that the church in Russia has always supported the government, and this is its advantage and disadvantage at the same time. The church, according to him, had no ambitions itself, and this is why Khrushchev’s persecution cannot be reasonably explained.
“And there was Fidel Castro. If, instead of this persecution, a moderate strengthening of the Christian idea along with its merging in the sense of the Liberation Theology had taken place, then the collapse of the Soviet project that entailed the entire global catastrophe (we can watch it) could have been avoided. Everything would have been different. Thus, this point of view is enough to make the issue of Christianity and Communism really urgent,” Kurginyan said.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
