“Communism is berries. Ukraine needs to uproot its Byzantine-Orthodox roots” – Lviv historian
Ukraine faces a historical task - to radically overcome its own history, its own past.
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He writes about it on the pages of the Kyiv publication “New Time” Lviv professor-historian Yaroslav Gritsak.
“To radically overcome history, a large-scale crisis is needed. For example, the same as it was at the time of the fall of communism. Or similar to what we are experiencing now,” writes Gritsak.
According to the Lvov professor, the decommunization of Ukrainian society carried out by the current government is good, but not enough. The roots of communism lie in the distant past.
“The Soviet past is relatively easy to overcome, but what to do with the Byzantine-Orthodox heritage?
The relationship between communism and historical and cultural heritage should become the subject of analysis for historians and sociologists. This topic is in vain ignored, treating it frivolously. Communism is just flowers, disgusting and deadly, but still flowers on a tree whose roots have grown into a more ancient past. And it can only be rooted out with the help of deep reforms.” – writes the Lvov historian.
“We have been fighting the past for 30 years. And for 30 years it has been defeating us,” concludes Gritsak.
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