Metropolitan of Belgorod and Starooskolsk John on the evening of the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War said that the war was won by the baptized people, and the dead unbaptized soldiers of the Red Army, who "were born already in the godless time", became sacrifices brought for the godless.
This is not the first, and not the last, darkness. It is logical to continue the associative series: the mass extermination of Jews by the Nazis, since they are also unchristed. Only here the overall picture does not fit the burned villages, often to the ground. Despite the negative attitude toward religion in the USSR, in the villages, almost all were believers. Interestingly, could John, looking into the eyes of the Belarusians, call Khatyn the ruined fort of the wicked? So Metropolitan Belgorod is either an idiot or a traitor of his spiritual office, pouring water on the mill of atheists.