Memory of Russia's Great Patriotic War against nazi Germany (1941-45) will help us oppose terrorism, said His Beatitude.
"We must spare no efforts for a rebuff to attempts to treat aggressors on a par with those who fought them. We must do all we can for our grateful memory of those who fought a victorious war in the ranks of the world's strongest army to protect the human race from more acts of mutual extermination.
"The ideas of global dictatorship and terrorism have no lost their grip on many minds.
"We are to see just what we can do to oppose terrorism, preserve steady peace between nations as the most precious fruit of the Victory, and revive the ideal of national unity and staunch spirit, which was displayed during the war.
"Victory in the Great Patriotic War cemented Russia.
"Victory in World War II brought the Eastern Christian nations of Europe closer together, enhanced the influence of the Russian Church, and made it possible to establish autocephalous Orthodox Churches in Poland and Czechoslovakia," said the Patriarch.
