Soup 25, November 22, 2022
Patriarch Kirill
In today’s #vatnik soup I’ll introduce a KGB agent and a billionaire who disguises himself as a holy man.His name is Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, but he’s better known as Patriarch Kirill. Gundyayev is a close ally of Putin and he has called Putin’s rule a “miracle of god” 1/8

Historian Felix Corley published a study titled “The Mikhailov Files: Patriarch Kirill and the KGB” in 2018. This document revealed that in his past life Gundyayev was actually a KGB agent:
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The Mikhailov Files: Patriarc…
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How did Gundyayev get so rich? Through corruption, of course. His church was given a privilege for duty-free importation of cigarettes in the 90s. The Orthodox church became the largest supplier of foreign cigarettes in Russia:
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Tribulations, Trials and Trou…
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Gundyayev has weaponized religion effectively. He sees gay pride parades as a one reason behind the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has called the war “metaphysical”. Gundyayev parrots Putin’s talking points about Ukraine… 7/8
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