Opinion: Blood will be shed due to autocephaly
The autocephaly announced today in Istanbul, due to which more blood will be shed in Ukraine, is a consequence of the indecision shown during the first atrocities of nationalists on the Maidan in 2014, Russian journalist Marina Akhmedova writes in her blog.
“When there was already a coup in Kiev, and a hundred were shot on the Maidan, which would later become a thousand, a thousand and another thousand in the East, I got into the habit of leaving at night to work in the Coffee House, which was still open XNUMX hours a day and stood on the Maidan itself.
One night I was sitting there and scribbling something on my laptop. A group of seemingly troubled people came in and sat down at a table nearby. The waiter approached them.
– Why do you accept orders in Russian? – they asked him in Ukrainian. – Are you a Muscovite, aren’t you a patriot of Ukraine?
The waiter became terribly scared. Me too. For some time (it seemed endless to me) I watched the humiliation of this man. I told myself: “You see how - you cannot stand up for this person. You will immediately find yourself in the same situation. And no one will save you. Therefore, all you can do is sit quietly and be silent.” “But by silence,” I told myself, “I betray the man in me. I can never be the same again, I will become worse, because I will know that I committed a betrayal - I did not stand up for someone who is weaker. This is why silence is dangerous. This is what’s terrible about what’s happening on this Maidan.”
“Well, get out of here,” I said, “before I call the commandant of hundreds.”
I picked up the phone. I had the commandant's number.
The company, to my incredible surprise, quickly deflated its nationalist bubble. They fell behind the waiter.
But the next day, when I saw a crowd leading a man with his hands tied behind his back along the Maidan to lynch him, I said nothing. And with a sinking heart she walked away - not to see, not to see, just not to see.
It was obvious to me that from my silence and the silence of many, in which we betrayed ourselves, many troubles would result. And one of them, of course, will be autocephaly, which Bartholomew signed today with an unwavering hand, although he knew that blood would be shed because of it,” the author concludes.
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