伪满殖民政权的东正教政策

Japanese Colonial Government's Policy for the Orthodox Church

中国东北沦陷之后,日本殖民政权从强化统治和对抗苏联的需要出发,针对伪满境内的东正教会,制定了怀柔和高压并举的宗教政策。一方面安抚和拉拢东正教会,利用其煽动俄国侨民从事反共反苏活动;另一方面则严密监控东正教会,镇压神职人员和教徒的反日亲苏活动,并通过宣扬惟神之道、强迫教徒拜祭天照大神等方式,从思想上改造东正教,进而根除俄国侨民的民族意识。这些政策似曾一度取得成功,但却招致东正教会和教徒的普遍抵制,最终归于失败。

After seizing Northeast China, in order to strengthen its control and withstand USSR, Japanese colonial government made a religious policy combining conciliation with coercion. On one hand, it placated and corrupted the Orthodox Church, stirring up the Russian people to carry out anti-USSR activities. On the other hand, it tightly monitored the Orthodox Church,suppressed the anti-Japan/pro-USSR activities of the clergy and its believers. It preached Shinto and forced the believers to visit Amaterasu shrine, aiming to ideologically reform the Orthodox Church, and to further remove the national awareness of White Russian. All these seemed to be successful for a time, but got a collective boycott from the Orthodox Church and the believers, so finally failed.