P.Ts.U. BISHOP: R.P.Ts IN UKRAINE IS KREMLIN'S WEAPON OF COLONIZATION
Religiina Pravda, 25 July 2021
Bishop Adrian of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PTsU) called the Russian Orthodox Church (R.P.Ts) in Ukraine "the Kremlin's weapon of the revival of colonization." He wrote about this on Facebook. "The new stage of the hybrid war of Muscovy (Russia) against Rus (Ukraine). Putin's letter about one people, the RPTs about the one people, and Onufry's billboards about the one people—all of this testifies about the RPTs in Ukraine as the Kremlin's weapon of the renewal of colonization of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. And all of this will become a new reality through the overwhelming majority of little Russians, a kind of difference among the Ukrainian people," the PTsU hierarch noted.
He recalled that the official website of the Moscow patriarchate published an article by the first deputy chairman of the synod's Department for Relations of Church with Society and News Media, Alexander Shchipkov, about the article by Russian President Vladimir Putin, "On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians."
Bishop Adrian Kulik quoted Shchipkov where he
writes about
"one people" and "Little Russians": "Russia will not
permit making Anti-Russia out of Ukraine. Ukrainians-Little
Russians and
Russians are one people. We are ready to protect them by all
available means.
Putin's article is a view of the immediate historical prospects.
It is possible
to consider it a continuation of the 'Crimean Speech,' delivered
in 2014, and
specifically that part where he talks about the Russians as the
most divided
people of Europe. Today the Russian president is speaking for both
Russians,
and New Russians, and Little Russians. He recalls that Russia
cannot allow
itself to leave a part of its own people without protection. This
is a question
of historical national ability. . . , the moment of the
fundamental resolution
of the problem of Ukrainian Russians (Russians with Ukrainian
citizenship) is
obviously quite near. And this contains a hint to the Ukrainian
Russians
themselves. For them (for us) it now is important to confirm
ourselves in our
cultural self-determination, despite the repressive policies of
ethnocratic
minorities. Resistance requires both political support and
ideological
justification, which is given by the article 'On the historical
unity of
Russians and Ukrainians.'" (tr. by PDS, posted 25 July 2021)
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