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Morning Cup of Murder

The Murder of A Religious Leader - September 9 2022

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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MERCH! https://www.bonfire.com/store/morningcupofmurder/  Our New Website: https://morningcupofmurder.com/ September 9th: Alexander Men Killed (1990) Infamy can come at a deadly cost. On September 9th 1990 a man whose works, words, and actions were both beloved and loathed by people throughout Russian was struck down just outside his home. A man who, while many loved and followed his word, had many enemies who may have wanted him dead.  Join the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Listen to The Cryptid Catalog: (Scary stories for kids) https://open.spotify.com/show/7vwn8JNkTPOmxwRoHsVDc1 Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange local true crime story you want to share, or you just want to say hi? Email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Morning Cup of Murder is Edited and Produced by Dillon Biemesderfer Follow Dillon on instagram: @dungeonsanddillons Information for this episode was collected from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Men#:~:text=On%20Sunday%20morning%2C%209%20September,Novaya%20Derevnya%20for%2020%20years, http://www.alexandermen.com/Assasination_of_Father_Men, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/10/18/lament-for-a-murdered-priest/88d4e773-4b3f-498b-8f01-15f57dcebc8e/, https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/lafdbh/the_murder_of_father_alexander_men/, http://www.passportmagazine.ru/article/1701/, https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/struck-down-orthodox-priest-alexander-men-also-struck-chord   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:32.7

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:36.1

We have a weird homicide.

0:38.9

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:42.3

A cop of murder.

0:44.8

Infamy can come at a deadly cost.

0:47.8

On September 9th, 1990, a man whose works, words, and actions were both beloved and loathed by people throughout Russia,

0:56.8

was struck down just outside of his home.

0:59.7

A man who, while many loved and followed his word, had many enemies who may have wanted him dead.

1:06.7

So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

1:17.1

Alexander Vladimirovich Men was born in Moscow on January 22, 1935 to a Jewish family, but when he was just six months old, was baptized along with his mother

1:28.8

in the banned Catacomb Church, a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church that refused to cooperate

1:34.8

with the Soviets. When Alexander was just six years old, his father was arrested by the

1:40.3

people's commissariat of internal affairs, the Soviet police, who sent him to a labor camp up in the mountains where he would stay for over a year.

1:50.4

Undeterred by the devastation around him, or maybe inspired by it, Alexander began studying at the Moscow Furrendown Institute before transferring to an agricultural school from which he was expelled in

2:02.1

1958 due to his religious beliefs. The same year, he was ordained and became a deacon. Two years

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