The ROCOR (РПЦЗ : Русская Православная Церковь Заграницей) rejected both the Communist regime in the Soviet Union and the Moscow Patriarchate as a Soviet church (since 1927) run by the secret police: Cheka (1917-22), GPU (1922-23), OGPU ( 1923-34), NKGB (1941-46) , NKVD (1934-46) MGB ( 1946-53) KGB SSSR (1954-1991), FSB (1991-2024).