Victor Pivovarov got a fine of 40,000 rubles, around €450, as a Russian court considered that one of the priest’s sermons “discredited” the Russian army. But the 86-year old continues to speak out against Putin’s actions. “The thing is, I’ve hated Bolshevism since I was a child” he says. “I saw how the Chekists, the Bolsheviks, abused my mother […] They tortured her. And I made a vow, you could say, to take revenge on Bolshevism for that.”