POLITICAL ACCUSATIONS OF ARCHIMANDRITE VLADIMIR (FINKOVSKY) IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE BNR RADA AND THE BCR
 IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1950s.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history of opposition to the relocation of Archimandrite Vladimir (Finkovsky) to serve in the Belarusian parishes under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Elected to the post of rector of the Belarusian parish in Toronto he could not enter the country after the message about the clergy's pro-Soviet sympathies received from the Canadian and American diplomatic missions. For a long time, the name of the author of this anonymous denunciation remained unknown. An appeal to declassified CIA documents from the Cold War period made it possible to establish that in 1956 and 1958 President of the Council of the Belarusian People's Republic N. Abramchik contacted with representatives of the CIA, trying to prevent Archimandrite Vladimir from moving to North America. At the same time, N. Abramchik used as an argument the accusation of the clergyman of sympathy for the Soviet political system.