Institute of the Russian Orthodox Church as an instrument of strengthening the foreign policy influence of the Soviet Union in the Arab countries of the Middle East in 1958-1960

between the USSR and Middle Eastern countries not in the use of explicit methods of force, as practiced by the United States and European countries through open intervention and interference in internal affairs, as in subtle ideological propaganda. A special role in the process of political and spiritual rapprochement between the Soviet state and the countries of the Middle East was played by the representative of the Moscow Patriarchate under the Patriarch of Antioch, Bishop of Podolsk John (Wendland).