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Saturday,4December
19
Iwrotethreeletterstoday:totheArchimandritePaul,24Germane,25
andKezel26.Itisenoughforthemoment.Threemoreobligationsleft:the
letterswrittenonbehalfofthesoldiers,amessagetoMissLaudenbach,
towhomIshouldwrite,butthusfarIhavenotdoneanythingyet,andto
CaptainGamkrelidze.There’sonemore,andveryimportantthingtodo,
mylittleessaytitledTwoCommunisms.
Yes,Ihavedonealltheothers.ForNakashidzeIsenttwoletters,as
wellasforJibladzeandBaloshvili.UnlessIreceiveresponsesIamnot
goingtomakeanyeffortatcorrespondenceatall.
Now,concerningTwoCommunismsonceagain:
ThismorningIwasreadingthelastchapteroftheepistleofPaulthe
ApostletotheCorinthians.27PaultheApostlegivesinstructionstobeliev-
ersonhowtocollectbenefitsforthesaintsinJerusalem,whoareattheir
devotionsalldayandallnight,fulfillingthedogmasofMoses.Certainly,
theyhadnotimeleftforworkandbyandlarge,whatwastheretowork
forinJerusalem?Itrepresentedapoorcountry.Allthesame,theyhad
managedtobuildacommunismtherebutonlytomaintainitjustforthree
days.Then,likeadeflatedballoon,itdisappearedcompletely,yieldingto
nopracticalresults,thehumanvoracity,greedandenvybeingthereason.
ThatwastheFirstCommunism.
TheRussiancommunismbyLenin28andTrotsky29,letuscallitthe
SecondCommunism,asaresultoftheactivityofthesepublicfigures,
24ArchimandritePavleJaparidze(1888-1929)tookmonasticvowsinoneoftheAtoniMount
monasteries.AtthereturntoGeorgiaassignedtotheShioMghvimeMonastery.During1918-1921
studiedatTbilisiStateUniversity.AftertheBolshevikinvasionofGeorgiamadehiscomebackto
SvetiskhoveliCathedralChurchasadeputyprior.OntheassignmentofCatholicos-Patriarchheand
EpiscopeDavidKachakhidzeplacedthechurchtreasuresofKutaisiatthevaultofthediocesehouse
ofNazartheMetropolitan.Putontrialin1924togetherwiththeothermembersoftheCatholicosat
Council.Diedin1929andisburiedinthechurchyardinSvetiskhoveli.
25DeaconGerasimeJajanidze(1868-1924)lecturerattheTheologicalSeminary.Alongwith
theMetropolitanNazarandotherclergyshotbyorderofBolsheviksintheSapichkhiaforest.Cano-
nizedbytheGeorgianChurch.
26FatherDimitiKezel.
27ThefirstEpistleofPaultheApostletotheCorinthianswritteninaround59ADandconsisting
of16chapters.
28Lenin.Ulianovhisbirthname(1870-1924)politician,Marxismtheoretician,andthefounder
oftheBolshevikParty.AleaderoftheRussianRevolutionin1917.
29LevTrotsky(LevBronstein)(1879-1924)Marxist,revolutionaryandtheoretician;founder