The “coronavirus” campaign against the church continues the Soviet tradition of slander
The coronavirus epidemic has given a new reason for a smear campaign against the church, and this is reminiscent of the anti-church propaganda of Soviet times.
Vasily Anisimov, press secretary of the UOC, stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Church fighters are gloating that the virus has also affected the clergy. They probably think that the infection will not stick to the infection, and the virus itself will bypass them. But the epidemic affects everyone, not only doctors and clergy, but also such scoundrels who slander the church today.
I mean Farion, and the informer Vyatrovich, and all the others who will continue the old Soviet tradition of slandering the church, trying to scare people away from God with all sorts of horror stories.
In Soviet times, the atheistic, godless authorities deliberately placed all sorts of hospitals in monasteries in order to scare people away. Until 2012, our Lavra had the largest infectious diseases hospital; it was removed only under Azarov.
Since Soviet times, there has been a typhoid department, a hepatitis department, an AIDS department, etc. Why was this done? To show believers: don’t go, it’s dangerous, it’s very unhealthy, etc.
So, for the Orthodox Church, which has gone through seventy years of atheist persecution, slander, and malicious discredit, this is not the first time. The church is used to this,” concluded Vasily Anisimov.
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