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Today, the concept of the New Holy Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church is primarily associated with the post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church. However, a frequently overlooked fact is that this religious approach to the Orthodox victims of the Soviet regime was proposed and developed by the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia (ROCOR). Furthermore, the official canonization of the New Martyrs occurred in the United States, where the Church had settled in 1981. Exploring the perspective of ROCOR on the Soviet past would offer us an alternative memory work compared to what we see in post-Soviet Russia. This paper focuses on the phenomenon of the New Martyrdom in the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia (USA, Germany, Moldova) as a distinct way of memory of the Soviet past.