Communist secret service and the Slavic Orthodox Church

A representative of Poland's Slavic Orthodox Church once worked for the Polish secret service. This is revealed in a document belonging to the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), which has the task of investigating crimes committed by the communist and Nazi dictatorships, and which conservative daily Rzeczpospolita has now published: "There were claims that we Catholics had it harder than other religions. This is not true. ... We have also published documents that dealt with collaboration between the secret services and members of the Lutheran church. Today we present a text about a place of worship of the Slavic Orthodox Church. ... The Slavic Orthodox Church was ... a much easier target for the secret service than the powerful Catholic Church. Secondly, unlike the members of the Slavic Orthodox Church, who were left to their own devices, the Catholic bishops and priests enjoyed the protection of the Holy See during the communist era."

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