Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow
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Patriarch Alexy I was the 13th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church between 1945 and 1970.
Alexy I in 1940
Gleb Yakunin
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Gleb Pavlovich Yakunin was a Russian priest and dissident, who fought for the principle of freedom of conscience in the Soviet Union. He was a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, and was elected memb
Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow
…the KGB to enroll the Russian Orthodox Church into the Christian Peace Conference in 1958 and the World Council of Churches in 1961. In 1965, Fathers Gleb Yakunin and Nikolai Eschlimann wrote an open letter to Patriarch Alexius. According to Evgeny Barabanov, "They showed convincingly how a significant part of…
Gleb Yakunin at a pro-democracy rally in Moscow, November 2012
The 1983 German poster reads: freedom for Gleb Yakunin
“Opening of monument to victims of political repressions”. Yakunin (center of the second row) performing a service for the victims of the Stalinist political repressions at Solovetsky Stone from the then Solovetsky special-purpose camp (the Solovetsky Monastery) set up in front of the KGB headquarters in Lubyanka Square, Moscow, on October 30, 1990.