The persecution of the SBU turned the governor of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra into a persecuted martyr
Against the backdrop of pressure on the UOC from the state and intelligence services, even its hierarchs with a dubious reputation are beginning to look decent.
The director of the Agency for Social Communications, Sergei Belashko, said this on air on the First Cossack channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The expert cited the abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Paul, as an example.
“It turns out a paradoxical situation: those people who have never been moral authorities, the same Pavel Lebed, who has repeatedly appeared in scandals associated with his lifestyle and is far from asceticism, is already turning from a sybarite in a cassock into a persecuted martyr. We see that those who yesterday deservedly condemned him for his indecent lifestyle are defending him today, because these persecutions and absurd accusations evoke an adequate assessment of society. And this assessment, even for a priest with a dubious reputation, turns out to be even higher than that of the special services that are engaged in repressive measures,” Belashko said.
As PolitNavigator reported, the SBU accused the governor Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in preparation for “unrest”
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