Is it B.S. that the KGB originated as the Oprichni secret police of the Russian Orthodox “church”?
NOPE.
You mean these Oprichniki?
https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Ivan-the-Terrible-and-His-Secret-Police
Yes, they dressed in black monastic robes and attended long church services, but they were by no means real monks or even laity in good standing!
The founder of the modern Soviet “Oprichniki”, Felix Dzerzhinsky, was a Polish Catholic by background, who became an atheist communist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky
He was not Orthodox at all!
Here’s what REALLY happened between the Russian Orthodox Church and the original Oprichniki:
St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and Enlightener of All America, re-established the Church as independent from the government, which it had not been since Peter the Great:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_Tikhon_of_Moscow
Although St. Tikhon and the other early Russian saints in Alaska were instrumental in establishing the Orthodox Church in America, its people are not very Russian. Most are descendants of Carpatho-Russyn immigrants, or just plain American converts and their children.
Like most Russophobes, you are unwilling to admit that the world has experienced a “great reversal”, with Russia as a bastion of Christianity, and our poor America as a land and people misled by communists (obama, Ayers, Dohrn, etc.), atheists, “gays”, and banksters. And you know very little about the Orthodox Church.
We all need to wake up, if we are to recover as a free people!!!!