The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

This icon was made by the ROAC over ten years ago and neither they or ROCOR-V made any comments regarding it.

On September 5, a new icon was commissioned by a member of the Makarian-Synod parish in St Petersburg, and depicts St Joseph of Petrograd, known as the leader of the catacomb Church, standing over Metropolitan Sergius (Stragodorsky), garbed in a Soviet uniform under his cassock. The icon, placed online by Fr Alexey Lebedev of St Petersburg’s St Mary of Gatchina Parish (ROAC), spawned hundreds of comments demonstrating an incredible range of anger and support, as well as spawning a discussion of proper iconographic types. Comments from members of the Moscow Patriarchate ranged from shock to outright anger while comments from ROAC and ROCOR members ranged from cheers to disgust.

Source:
http://nftu.net/st-petersburg-icon-caus ... ntroversy/

Do you think this icon is acceptable or heretical?

Since you titled this thread 'personal thoughts', I am answering in this vein.

Great effort, very imaginative.

I can not imagine how ANY Rocor member let alone ROAC member could react with disgust. At worst, one might say the icon is in poor taste.

But the image of the triumph of the serene and pure St Joseph of Petersburg and his followers over the serpent-like pat. Sergei [Stragorodsky] and his Communist-state-kowtowing followers is too uplifting to one's spirit to quibble too much ! For anyone who knows about that era, surely the image is a powerful one.

This is a very important truth , and should never be hidden ,a very correct icon.