 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pashure pokurwiswa kweSoviet Union neNazi Germanymuna 1941, Joseph Stalin akamutsidzira Chechi yeOrthodox yeRussia kuti iwedzere kutsigira hondo. Mumaawa okutanga aSeptember 5, 1943, maMetropolitans Sergius Stragorodsky, Alexius Simansky naNicholas Yarushevich vakaita musangano naStalin uye vakagamuchira mvumo yekuunganidza kanzuru musi waSeptember 8, 1943, iyo yakasarudza Sergius Patriarch weMoscow neRussia yose. Ikoku kunorangarirwa navamwe sokuputsa mutemo wechi XXX wevaApostora, sezvo pasina mukuru mukuru wechechi aigona kugadzwa nezviremera zvenyika. Mutungamiriri mutsva akasarudzwa, zvikoro zvechitendero zvakavhurwa, uye zviuru zvechechi zvakatanga kushanda. Moscow Theological Academy Seminary, iyo yakanga yakavharwa kubvira muna 1918, yakavhurwazve. 