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and bloody battles, which was imitated In numerous other districts. Thus the idea of fighting In defence of the Church against the "servants of Antichrist" spread. The Soviets remained the victors. Bishop Yevdokim first, and then the Patriarch Tikhon himself, submitted to the Soviets and became their faithful partisans, offending the people, the Church, and the Russian emigres. The idea of struggling for the Church was extinguished like all the other lofty watchwords of Russia.
