La CucaRacha's Intensive Pogrom Against Orthodox Christianity

marksleboda  |  In religious terms, Ukraine is largely an Eastern Orthodox nation, just like Russia. Close to 70% of the population currently identifies as Orthodox Christian.

For over a thousand years a common Orthodox Christian religion and Church united the peoples of what are today the separate states of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus in faith and culture. Since the 14th century the nominal ecclesiastic Patriarch of that common Orthodox faith was located in Moscow. For most of that time the peoples were united politically as well. 

And endless sea of Western “expert” articles and media reports rant on about the threat of the Church and how the Russian government “weaponizes” it as instrument of soft power, much as Hollywood serves as a weaponized instrument of US soft power.

However there has always been a general understanding that due to the basic right to “freedom of religion” that this soft power is not something that should be politically challenged or restricted.
I mean how often do you hear in the media about the state of Israel weaponizing the “Jewish faith” or Saudi Arabia weaponizing Sunni Islam?

But whether it is “freedom of the press”,” freedom of speech, or “Freedom of religion” is there any single thing that has made the West cast off the thin veneer of their supposed values and show their true authoritarian colors like Russia?

A decision was made following the US-backed Maidan Putsch in 2014 that in order to permanently geopolitically divide Ukraine from Russia that the cultural and religious bonds uniting the two peoples must be severed as well. 

 
The creation of a new “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” (OCU) with a new Patriarch in Kiev was pushed by the Kiev Putsch regime and manufactured into being in 2018.

The Kiev Patriarch Filaret even gave CIA ops chief, Jack Devine, an award for his support in the creation of the new ecclesiastically- independent Ukrainian Orthodox church. Incidentally he gave an award to US neocon John McCain as well. That should tell you everything you need to know.

Since seizing power 2014 and accelerating dramatically in the last year, the US-backed Putsch regime in Kiev has been carrying out a very real pogrom against the Orthodox churches and parishioners across Ukraine who do not accept the rule and strictures of its new ly manufactured Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) , this after the older and still largest Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) officially suspended its nominal ecclesiastical ties with the Orthodox Patriarch in Moscow after the start of the Russian intervention in the Ukrainian civil conflict in February 2014.

They even made very public statements against the Russian intervention, including a procession by its priests against the Russian and Donbass siege of the NeoNazi Azov-held Azovstal Steel Plant in Mariupol.

But that isn’t good enough for the Zelenskiy regime in Kiev. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church, its priests, and its parishioners are still regarded with hostility and decried as “fifth columnists” that need to be cleansed from Ukraine.

 It is believed that whatever they proclaim, deep inside they do not hold absolute loyalty to the US-backed Putsch regime in Kiev and don’t truly hate Russia and Russians enough.