Orthodox Churchman Says ‘Jewish-Masonic Conspiracy’ Again Threatens Russia

Paul Goble

            Staunton, December 1 – Sexton Sergey (Romanov) of the Sredneuralsk Women’s Monastery of the Yekaterinburg Bishopric of the Russian Orthodox Church said that again as in Soviet times, “a Jewish-Masonic conspiracy” is threatening Russia, using new methods but with the same goal – the destruction of the Russian people.

            His November 28 sermon has been posted on YouTube where it has unfortunately spread his noxious ideas and even attracted support for them (youtube.com/watch?v=qUJbxTH16pY  and ahilla.ru/glavnyj-sektant-ekaterinburgskoj-eparhii-oblichaet-zhidomasonov-i-zhidovstvuyushhih/).

            According to Sergey, members of this “conspiracy” “destroyed our people through hunger, repression, poverty, homelessness and so on” in Soviet times. Now, “the Satanist Jewish-Masons from Habad have returned to Russia … and are again conducting a genocide of the Russian people.”

            At present, “the conspirators” are using new tools to do so: “the Internet, information war, drugs, vaccinations, and now the law they want adopted about force in the family,” the churchman says.   He adds that these “satanic forces” argue that it is necessary to build schools and hospitals rather than churches. The reverse is true, the sexton says. 

            Sergey certainly does not speak for all Russian Orthodox faithful or churchmen. Many have regularly condemned anti-Semitism and the ideas he is putting forth, although his superiors, not to mention government officials, have not yet called him to account in this case.  That is one of the reasons it is worth pointing to the re-emergence of this libel.  There are two others.

            On the one hand, the recrudescence of such notions is a not unexpected byproduct of the the Russian regime’s hostility to the outside world and its celebration of “traditional Russian values.”  Even if there is no intent to do so, those official attitudes give sanction to those like Sergey to spread their poisonous ideas.

            And on the other, however much Sergey and others like him may view the Internet as the enemy, they too are using it to spread their ideas.  There were likely no more than a few dozen faithful at his sermon, but hundreds if not thousands have heard his words via YouTube and quite possibly been influenced by them.