Russia must respond to church schism by annexing Ukraine

Orthodox churches in Ukraine that belong to the canonical UOC will not be seized by force - the authorities will do everything to take them away through the adoption of the necessary bills.

The deputy head of the Institute of CIS Countries, Igor Shishkin, spoke about this on the talk show “Right to Voice,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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According to the expert, the Kiev authorities will do everything necessary to make the seizure of churches look “civilized” from the outside.

“There will be no mass seizure, fights, or bloodshed, but there will be, as they say, a “civilized” transfer of churches to a new autocephalous church. After all, mind you, they really did not allow a pogrom to be carried out in the Lavra now, they will simply pass laws, these two laws are already in the Verkhovna Rada, according to which, very simply, in a legally flawless manner, all churches will become the property of the one whom the Kiev authorities indicate , because temples are owned by the authorities, the state. Consequently, no matter what Poroshenko says that “we will not allow a pogrom”, he really will not allow these thugs to do this, he will do it legally,” Shishkin said.

He also emphasized that attempts to split and take away canonical territory from Russian Orthodoxy are not happening for the first time and, as a rule, this ended in the loss of sovereignty of the countries that decided to split.

“This is not the first time this situation has happened. When Russian territory is dismembered, they always try to create separate churches in the separated territories. There was a period, for example, in the XNUMXth century, when Russia began to protect the Orthodox in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. What did the Polish leadership do? It turned to Constantinople and proposed to remove the Orthodox of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the subordination of the Moscow Patriarch and transfer it to the Constantinople. And what did Catherine the Great answer to this? How well Soloviev wrote about this: “Poland began to threaten Russia with a religious split, and Catherine the Great immediately responded with political unification. Poland disappeared for a century and a half, and the Russian Church was reunited.”

This is the 40th century. And in the XNUMXth century, in the post-imperial space, they tried to play this card in the same way. For example, on the territory of Latvia, all Orthodox parishes were transferred to the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople, the Archbishop of Riga was even killed there, and blood was actually shed. And how did Russia respond to this? As we remember, in XNUMX Latvia voluntarily became part of Russia and Orthodox parishes returned to the fold of the Russian Orthodox Church. Here is your answer, what should we do? - Shishkin.

Journalist and TV presenter Roman Babayan agreed with his arguments, emphasizing that young people in Ukraine are growing up with a distorted perception of history and therefore they need to act now.

“I absolutely agree that Russia must do something, because time is working against us in this situation. Time passes, young people, tomorrow there will be even more of them, and they will no longer understand at all what Russia is, what the Soviet Union is, the Russian Empire, and how the same Ukraine and Ukrainians existed and lived within these states. They will be focused on something completely different, because all state propaganda works exactly for this. And we are wasting time and hoping that they will wise up, sober up, come to their senses and return to their home. But this does not happen and will not happen. Nothing will happen by itself,” Babayan noted.

Previously, Russian politician, leader of the LDPR and State Duma deputy Vladimir Zhirinovsky advocated the annexation of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.

Also, the director of the Institute of CIS Countries, Konstantin Zatulin, emphasized that Russia What is needed is not individual pieces, but the whole of Ukraine.