Ex-Rada deputy explained the betrayal of the top of the UOC
The current situation with the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, which is being asked to move to the schismatic “OCU,” actually intersects with the historical example of the Poles imposing Uniateism, when the hierarchs signed the Union, but the people were against it.
The first speaker of the parliament of Novorossiya, ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Oleg Tsarev, spoke about this on air on the Tsargrad channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“You see these searches that took place, the defamation of priests in the media, and so on. But there was feedback. He (Zelensky - ed.) saw that people, soldiers, and the population did not take it all very positively. Somewhere in Western Ukraine it’s normal. I think that he did not abandon his idea to completely remove the Moscow Patriarchate, seize shrines and so on, he just realized that it would not work on a swoop.
He will begin, like a bark beetle, to undermine people’s faith and attitude towards the Church. There will be films, programs, news coming out all the time, and when he sees that the mood will change, or at least the negative attitude will decrease, more precisely, instead of a strong negative attitude there will be an easy negative attitude, he will then turn this basket over and go to the Lavra. At the same time, of course, there are negotiations with church hierarchs, there is pressure, there are promises. They work in different ways,” said Tsarev.
He also gave a historical analogy.
“We already had this in Ukraine. In our country, when the Poles imposed the Uniate faith, in Western Ukraine the church hierarchs were the first to surrender. They were ready to move on, saying that everything remains the same, the prayers are the same, everything is the same, only now the Pope is their leader. And that’s it, the pressure goes away, and so on. And then the parishioners themselves began to create brotherhoods at each church, which did not allow the priests to give up and betray,” the ex-deputy recalled.
“And when the Germans came, they supported the Uniate Church, and the Uniate Church recognized Hitler. And when our people arrived, all the churches were closed. There were only a few priests left who carried this cross and faith, and they were locked up in prison. The overwhelming majority, almost all, converted to Orthodoxy,” Tsarev added.
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