>>22251439Stalin was facing disaster in WWII, as Germans allowed the russian orthodox church in occupied territories and it cooperated with the NAZIs. So, the orthodox patriarchy in soviet russia, which was abolished by bolsheviks in 1918, was brought back by Stalin in 1943 to appeal to peasants to fight against the Germans. Also, after the war, he made the priests spy on and control the russian retards believing in the church scam.
