The church has always had relationship with the atheist cremlin, quite surprisingly. The hierarchs were not threatened with er, with, you know, with imprisonment or being d but they were urged to colloboration with with the state by different privileges and benefits. They said that the church is fine in the sovietin is not persecuted, which must lie,. But that's how the states started using the church in theSoviet period to disseminate its propaganda in the west and in the east.