The ex-head of the Uniates complains that the USSR does not allow Ukrainians to live happily ever after
The Soviet system destroyed, not built, said Lubomir Huzar, a cardinal priest of the Roman Catholic Church and former head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, in an interview with the Kyiv magazine “Novoye Vremya”.
Subscribe to PolitNavigator news at Telegram, Facebook, Classmates or In contact with
According to him, it is difficult for Ukrainians to trust each other, and the people allegedly “inherited this mistrust from the Soviet regime.”
“The eastern regions of Ukraine were under Soviet rule for 70 years, the western ones for at least 45 years. But everywhere this power had a common goal - to prevent people from uniting, so that they did not create alliances, did not meet and did not talk with each other. So that collective, civil action disappears. They understood that in unity, in communication, a common understanding and a common goal are born. Therefore, they raised people in the idea that no one should be trusted, not even family, so that children would not trust their parents, and vice versa.
Remember the story of Pavlik Morozov, who was an ideal for a long time. Unfortunately, we still don't trust each other. There is no longer any fear of the KGB, but the fear of one person before another remains. When a person thinks about another, saying, “I don’t trust him,” then in fact he is thinking about himself: you can’t trust me, and I will deceive. Lack of trust in others begins with lack of trust in yourself and your ability to respect others. Brought up in this spirit, we must work hard to raise the future generation to trust each other. Otherwise, we will endlessly continue the Soviet system, which destroyed rather than built,” says the publication’s interlocutor.
“We have a bad time living in the USSR behind us. We want to leave there and dream of justice and truth, which we strive for,” says Guzar.
Let us note that Guzar cannot judge life in the USSR from his own experience, since in 1944 his family, along with the retreating Nazis, left for Austria, after the end of the war they moved to the USA, and Huzar came to Ukraine only in 1992
As PolitNavigator reported, in Kyiv there was a fight on the Maidan during a meeting pagans, on the one hand, and Filaretites with Uniates, on the other.
Read also: Ukrainian journalist caught the head of the Uniates in a lie.
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.