"Do not be deceived by committees, by words, by news, by lies, but stand strong, unwavering, steadfast in the faith for which our ancestors and forefathers shed blood. Do not put your name on any paper that requires you to forsake the law of your fathers. They will threaten you, they will beat you, they will take you to trials and before the judges. Do not be afraid, God is with each one of us, and will not let us be tempted and suffer more than we can bear. The world is looking at us, at the believers of the Uniate [Greek-Catholic] Church. We are a sight to the world. Oh, beloved faithful, let us not be a herd of fools, but confessors of the faith, be resolute members of the Church of Jesus in the Romanian Nation... Even if they take away our churches for a while, we will make a church at home, waiting full of hope for the deliverance, which will not be long."

"The Great Leader of our people, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, has passed away. The great power, the social power, in which our people felt their own strength, which guided them in their creative works and enterprises, which they consoled themselves for many years, was abolished. There is no area where the deep gaze of the great Leader does not penetrate... As a man of genius, in every matter he discovered what was invisible and inaccessible to the ordinary mind."

- Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus' Alexy I

"His death is a heavy grief for our Fatherland and for all the people who inhabit it. The whole Russian Orthodox Church, which will never forget his benevolent attitude to Church needs, feels great sorrow at his death. The bright memory of him will live ineradicably in our hearts. Our Church proclaims eternal memory to him with a special feeling of abiding love."

- Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus' Alexy I

Never forget how the communist government would threaten us to convert to orthodoxy or die.

And never forget who supported such a government.

“Stalin saved Russia, showed what it means to the world. Therefore, as an Orthodox Christian and Russian patriot, I bow down to Stalin.”

- Luke of Simferopol

Includes information about how the KGB infiltrated ROCOR and was involved in the World Council of Churches through the Moscow Patriarchate

https://www.mediafire.com/file/oj2bu7ah7vwsvwn/KGB-FSB%27s_New_Trojan_Horse_-_Americans_of_Russian_Descent_-_Konstantin_Preobrazhensky.pdf/file

meanwhile in a romanian EO church

the heresy of simony is alive in EO
https://greekorthodox.org.au/services-and-sacraments/certificates/

do they also charge the africans they baptize with their missions in Africa like this?

just in case you thought that you've seen it all

The opinion of St Ignatius Brianchaninov that all works by Catholic mystics after the Great Schism have been written in a state of spiritual “drunkenness” and delusion is well known. Since Bishop Ignatius has been canonized, some value his opinion as “patristic”. Yet we also know a different approach by other — equally canonized — church writers with a somewhat less cautious and categorical attitude towards Catholic spirituality. Some Orthodox Fathers are known for the direct influence Catholic spirituality exercised upon them. St Dimitri of Rostov was under this influence for his entire life: his homilies as well as other works, including the Reading Compendium of Saint’s lives, based primarily on Latin sources, have a distinctly “Westernizing” character; St Dimitri’s library held books by Bonaventure, Thomas a Kempis, Peter Canisius and other Catholic authors, and in his spirituality such elements as the devotion of the passions of Christ, the five wounds of Christ and the heart of Christ may be traced. The influence of Catholic spirituality on St Tikhon of Zadonsk can equally be sensed.

St Dimitri and St Tikhon, however, lived in an altogether different historical context. Contrary to St Ignatius (who had never studied theology in an ecclesiastical school), both were graduates of Latin schools which had shaped their thought; both had been reading Western authors all their lives.

One could note, St. Dimitri of Rostov also prayed the Rosary, said a Hail Mary at every hour, and "had a great devotion to the 'Joys and Sorrows' of the Most Holy Virgin Mary." (This last, some note, was long included in ROCOR's Jordanville Prayer Book as "The Tale of the Five Prayers.")

https://westernorthodox.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-orthodox-saints-assessed-western.html?m=1