Just how badly are modern patriarchates/church hierarchies still corrupted by state security and former communist agents and collaborators?

It's very possible all these ex fsb and kgb agents actually lost their faith in communism and actually became believing orthodox. Many did in ussr. One should not discount the close bond between the pure theory of communism--not the ideology but the phantasy-ideal--and its mirror image in orthodox communion, because while one tries to naively-satanically realise the ideal of a heaven on earth through pure human will, the other finds the kingdom of heaven in the cooperation of the human and divine. The reason many orthodox lands became communist is because they were deeply religious in the first place and placed the community and tradition above the individual.

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