Rostislav Ishchenko: A new stage of the civil war in Ukraine begins
The submission to the Verkhovna Rada of a law that legalizes the persecution of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate is evidence of the transition of the conflict in Ukraine into a new, more violent phase of the civil war, writes political scientist Rostislav Ishchenko on the pages of the Izvestia newspaper.
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“Anyone, even a novice politician, knows that the bloodiest, most irreconcilable and destructive wars are for faith...
The very fact of introducing this bill into the session hall marks the beginning of a new stage of the civil war in Ukraine - its gradual transformation into a religious war.
Just like the first (“peaceful”) Maidan, by the very fact of its holding it gave rise to a cold civil war with its almost inevitable escalation into a hot one. The mere public discussion of the law banning the UOC-MP in the session hall makes it a factor in the political struggle and removes the formally existing taboo on religious confrontation.
Churches of the UOC-MP have been captured before, priests were beaten, killed, and forced to emigrate from Ukraine. However, previously this was interpreted as “illegal excesses.” The vote of deputies on the bill will legalize anti-Orthodox pogromists. You never know that the law didn’t pass (even if it didn’t), but it could have passed. Now these are “legitimate demands” of part of society, supported by a significant part of legislators.
Maidans were also initially supported only by a minority of the population and politicians. But as soon as they were declared a legitimate form of struggle by part of society for their rights, there were already destroyed cities, tens of thousands of dead, and no end in sight,” notes Ishchenko.
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