Denikin
I involuntarily comes to mind one episode, a very specific mood for the then military environment - wrote in "Essays on Russian turmoil, General AI Denikin, - one of the regiments of the 4 th Infantry Division skillfully, lovingly, with great diligence built near the positions of the church camp. The first few weeks of the revolution ... Demagogue lieutenant decided that his company was badly placed, and the temple - a superstition. Arbitrarily placed in him company, and dug a trench in the altar for ... I am not surprised that the regiment was found rogue officer that his superiors had been terrorized and silent. But why is 2-3 thousand of Russian Orthodox people, brought up in the mystical forms of worship, indifferent attitude to such a desecration of holy sites and the desecration? Whatever the case, including moral factors that support the spirit of Russian troops faith did not start, prompting them to exploit or constraining the development of later animal instincts "(AI Denikin Essays on Russian turmoil. M., 1991, p. 79 - 80).
I refer to the modern historian and theologian, AB TEETH: "According to military clergy, the percentage of soldiers of the Orthodox faith, participated in the sacraments of Confession and Communion, declined after February 1917 is about ten times, and after October 1917 - even ten times. That is, actively and consciously believing in Russian society was at the time of the Revolution one person in a hundred, "Zubov AB Forty days or forty years? / / Continuity and Russia's resurgence. Collection of articles. M. 2001. P.95
by VK KANTOR Russian Orthodoxy in the imperial context: the conflicts and contradictions
Problems of Philosophy, № 7, 2003, pp. 3-22.
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