NOTcodename “Mikhailov”. It is under this pseudonym that Vladimir Mikhaïlovitch Goundiaïev, born in Leningrad in 1946, son and grandson of priests deported by the communist regime, served for years in the KGB, the Soviet secret police. The information was made public in the Russian press at a time of combined freedom and anarchy, at the beginning of the 1990s. It was necessary to have this distinction to be authorized to climb the ladder and to chair the department of external relations of the patriarchate of Moscow in 1989 to represent the Russian Church at the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva.
After the dissolution of the USSR, the power seeks a new national legitimacy, the leaders of the Church want to erase their past and refound the alliance of…
