When I saw this, I could not believe my eyes. I found the source, and I am sharing this with you now. Check out this “icon”:
The page where I found this abomination, helpfully lists the people represented on this “icon”. Here I quote:
Modern icon of the Intercession of Virgin Mary, showing figures that contributed to Ukrainian statehood from the 10th century onward
A modern icon of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary embosses another view at the Defenders of the Fatherland, one that takes us on a journey through episodes of Ukrainian statehood going from the medieval state of Kyivan Rus with its center in Kyiv and spanning large extents of modern-day Belarus and Russia (figure 2 – Volodymyr the Great, Prince of Kyivan Rus) and its western counterpart, the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia (5- Prince Daniel of Galicia), going through Kozak times (6 – Kozak leader Bohdan Khmelnitskyi and 7 – Ivan Mazepa), and continuing through Ukraine’s struggles for statehood in the aftermath of WW1 (leaders of the Ukrainian People’s republic, a Ukrainian political formation that struggled for independent statehood after the demise of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires: 15 – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, 17 – Simon Petlura; figures of Sich Riflemen, the first regular military units of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic: 16 – Dmytro Vitovskyi) and during WW2 (leaders of the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement OUN: 13 – Roman Shukhevych, 12 – Stepan Bandera). Such a continuity of historical tradition is detrimental to the concept of the Russian world, in line with which historical facts are being twisted to suggest that Ukraine does not have a story of its own statehood, and thus belongs under the wing of mother Russia.
Friends, this is not a joke. Petliura, Sukhevich and Bandera are now “saints”…
Notice the key sentence:”Such a continuity of historical tradition is detrimental to the concept of the Russian world“. That is, I suppose, the extend of Ukronazi “dogmatics”.
The Saker
PS: to illustrate to what degree these Ukronazis are pathetic, I want to point out a small, but telling, detail. The text which is held right under the “Ukrainian trident” is written in… Ukrainian! This might seem normal to you, but you need to realize, that if somebody wants to imitate the style of a real icon, any text typically shown, would be in Church Slavonic, not in a modern language. Furthermore, the use of Church Slavonic is not a “Russian” thing, but a common element to all Orthodox Slavs, including, of course, Ukrainians.
In other words, these Ukronazis are not even aware of their own historical and spiritual heritage. All they care aboutn is being an anti-Russian and, therefore, anti-Orthodox and, at that, they are really good indeed!
Also, on a personal note, my wife happens to be a direct descended of saint Vladimir, who is described in this pseudo-icon as “Volodymyr the Great, Prince of Kyivan Rus“. It always makes her sick to her stomach when she hears him presented as “Volodymyr” and as a “Ukrainian” since both that pronunciation of his name and the very word “Ukraine”, did not exist in his time.
The sad reality is that modern Ukronazi Banderastan has nothing, absolutely nothing, in common with the historical Kievan Rus’. In fact, Banderastan is only an anti-Rus’.
Saker,This is indeed pathetic …but this shouldn’t come as a surprise
from these psychopaths
Unless the US gets Its head out of its rear, and start acting like It has some common sense, I think we will see the destruction of the world.
I am happy they didn’t include the only important historical figure from ancient Kiev, Svjatoslav Igorevich the Conqueror, glory to Perun.
All history is revisionism.
Open Letter from Scholars and Experts on Ukraine Re. the So-Called “Anti-Communist Law”
David R. Marples
Critical Solutions
April, 2015
To the President of Ukraine, Petro O. Poroshenko, and to the Chairman of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, Volodymyr B. Hroysman:
We, the undersigned, appeal to you not to sign into law the draft laws (no. 2538-1 and 2558)1 adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on April 9, 2015. As scholars and experts long committed to Ukraine’s regeneration and freedom, we regard these laws with the deepest foreboding. Their content and spirit contradicts one of the most fundamental political rights: the right to freedom of speech. Their adoption would raise serious questions about Ukraine’s commitment to the principles of the Council of Europe and the OSCE, along with a number of treaties and solemn declarations adopted since Ukraine regained its independence in 1991. Their impact on Ukraine’s image and reputation in Europe and North America would be profound. Not least of all, the laws would provide comfort and support to those who seek to enfeeble and divide Ukraine.
We also are troubled by the fact that the laws passed without serious debate, without dissenting votes and with large numbers of deputies declining to take part.
In particular we are concerned about the following:
Concerning the inclusion of groups such as the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) as “fighters for Ukrainian independence”: Article 6 of this law makes it a criminal offense to deny the legitimacy of “the struggle for the independence of Ukraine in the 20th century” and public denial of the same is to be regarded as an insult to the memory of the fighters. Thus questioning this claim, and implicitly questioning anything such groups did, is being made a criminal offense.
Law 2558, the ban on propaganda of “Communist and National Socialist Regimes” makes it a criminal offense to deny, “including in the media, the criminal character of the communist totalitarian regime of 1917-1991 in Ukraine.”
The potential consequences of both these laws are disturbing. Not only would it be a crime to question the legitimacy of an organization (UPA) that slaughtered tens of thousands of Poles in one of the most heinous acts of ethnic cleansing in the history of Ukraine, but also it would exempt from criticism the OUN, one of the most extreme political groups in Western Ukraine between the wars, and one which collaborated with Nazi Germany at the outset of the Soviet invasion in 1941. It also took part in anti-Jewish pogroms in Ukraine and, in the case of the Melnyk faction, remained allied with the occupation regime throughout the war.
However noble the intent, the wholesale condemnation of the entire Soviet period as one of occupation of Ukraine will have unjust and incongruous consequences. Anyone calling attention to the development of Ukrainian culture and language in the 1920s could find himself or herself condemned. The same applies to those who regard the Gorbachev period as a progressive period of change to the benefit of Ukrainian civil society, informal groups, and political parties, including the Movement for Perestroika (Rukh).
Over the past 15 years, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has invested enormous resources in the politicization of history. It would be ruinous if Ukraine went down the same road, however partially or tentatively. Any legal or ‘administrative’ distortion of history is an assault on the most basic purpose of scholarly inquiry: pursuit of truth. Any official attack on historical memory is unjust. Difficult and contentious issues must remain matters of debate. The 1.5 million Ukrainians who died fighting the Nazis in the Red Army are entitled to respect, as are those who fought the Red Army and NKVD. Those who regard victory over Nazi Germany as a pivotal historical event should neither feel intimidated nor excluded from the nation.
Since 1991, Ukraine has been a tolerant and inclusive state, a state (in the words of the Constitution) for ‘citizens of Ukraine of all nationalities’. If signed, the laws of April 9 will be a gift to those who wish to turn Ukraine against itself. They will alienate many Ukrainians who now find themselves under de facto occupation. They will divide and dishearten Ukraine’s friends. In short, they will damage Ukraine’s national security, and for this reason above all, we urge you to reject them.
Signatories (in alphabetical order):
David Albanese, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Soviet and Russian History, Northeastern University, USA
Tarik Cyril Amar, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University, USA
Dominique Arel, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada
Martin Aust, Visiting Professor of History, University of Basel, Switzerland
Mark R. Baker, Assistant Professor, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of German Studies, Brown University, USA
Harald Binder, Ph.D., Founding President, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine
Marko Bojcun, Director of the Ukraine Centre, London Metropolitan University, UK
Uilleam Blacker, Lecturer in Comparative East European Culture, University College London, UK
Jeffrey Burds, Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Northeastern University, USA
Marco Carynnyk, Independent Scholar, Toronto, Canada
Heather J. Coleman, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada
Markian Dobczansky, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Stanford University, USA
Evgeny Finkel, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, USA
Rory Finnin, University Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
Christopher Ford, Lecturer in Trade Union Education, WEA London, UK
J. Arch Getty, Distinguished Professor of History University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Christopher Gilley, Research Fellow, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Frank Golczewski, Professor in the Program in History, University of Hamburg, Germany
Mark von Hagen, Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University, USA
André Härtel, Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Political Science, University of Jena, Germany
Guido Hausmann, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
John-Paul Himka, Professor Emeritus, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta, Canada
Adrian Ivakhiv, Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture, University of Vermont, USA
Kerstin S. Jobst, Professor of East European History, University of Vienna, Austria
Tom Junes, PhD (historian) – Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena, Germany
Andreas Kappeler, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Vienna, Austria
Ivan Katchanovski, Adjunct Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada
Padraic Kenney, Professor of History, Indiana University, USA
Olesya Khromeychuk, Teaching Fellow, University College London, UK
Oleh Kotsyuba, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, USA
Matthew Kott, Researcher at Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden
Mark Kramer, Program Director for Cold War Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, USA
Nadiya Kravets, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, USA
Olga Kucherenko, Independent Scholar, Cambridge, UK
John J. Kulczycki, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Victor Hugo Lane, York College, City University of New York, USA
Yurii Latysh, Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, Ukraine
David R. Marples, Distinguished University Professor, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta, Canada
Jared McBride, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University, USA
Brendan McGeever, Early Career Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London
Javier Morales, Lecturer in International Relations, European University of Madrid, Spain
Tanja Penter, Professor of Eastern European History, Heidelberg University, Germany
Olena Petrenko, Ph.D. Student, Department of East European History, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Simon Pirani, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and Lecturer on Russian and Soviet History, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Yuri Radchenko, Senior Lecturer, Kharkiv Collegium Institute of Oriental Studies and International Relations, and Director of Center for Inter-ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe, Kharkiv, Ukraine
William Risch, Associate Professor of History, Georgia College, USA
Grzegorz Rosslinski-Liebe, Research Fellow, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Blair Ruble, Political Scientist, Washington, DC, USA
Per Anders Rudling, Associate Professor of History, Lund University, Sweden
Martin Schulze Wessel, Chair of Eastern European History, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
Steven Seegel, Associate Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Anton Shekhovtsov, Visiting Senior Fellow, Legatum Institute, London, UK
James Sherr, Associate Fellow, Chatham House, London, UK
Volodymyr Sklokin, Researcher, Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine
Iryna Sklokina, Researcher, Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine
Yegor Stadny, Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
Andreas Umland, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv, Ukraine
Ricarda Vulpius, Research Fellow, Department for the History of East- and Southeastern Europe, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
Lucan Way, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada
Zenon Wasyliw, Professor of History, Ithaca College, USA
Anna Veronika Wendland, Research Coordinator, The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg, Germany
Frank Wolff, Assistant Professor of History and Migration Studies, Osnabrück University, Germany
Christine Worobec, Professor Emerita, Northern Illinois University, USA
Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of Slavic Studies and History, University of Victoria, Canada
Tanya Zaharchenko, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Historical Research, Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Sergei Zhuk, Associate Professor of History, Ball State University, Indiana, USA
1.Editor’s note: Draft law no. 2538-1 “On the Legal Status and Commemoration of Fighters for Ukraine’s Independence in the 20th Century” is avaiable in Ukrainian here. Draft law no. 2558 “On the Condemnation of the Communist and the National-Socialist (Nazi) Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine and Ban on the Propaganda of Their Symbols” is available in Ukrainian here.
Oooops,
they will regret it later.
I mean the professors will never acquire the entry visas into Usraine paradise :-)
What more:
they will be accused of criminal activity against Ukropian state and hanged on Maidan.
But if they are lucky and do not appear on saint ukrainian soil,
Poroshenko´s friend Obama will move them only to Guantanamo…..
Ukrainianism is deeply set mental condition, a form of psychosis. I call it Ukieosis.
I’m forever amazed how nationalist movements foster mob psychology and hysteria. They all appear to be the same and all equally destructive. Most telling, history must be revised to fit a new national narrative, which in turn is adorned physically with flags and symbols. Its followers typically deny any evidence that is contrary to the narrative. When faced with a serious challenge to their beliefs and its followers can easily become agitated, sometimes to the point of violence.
In my opinion, national flags are simply government corporate logos, which in turn represent their respective tax authorities. Render unto Caesar………………
Nationalism is a godless and its worship deeply idolatrous.
The so-called “Ukrainian” language is simply a modern dialect of ancient Rus. Oles Buzina was indeed correct, a Ukrainian is simply a special type of Russian. For nationalists this is their greatest challenge and their ultimate denial. No wonder they killed him.
The term “Ukrainian” is a relatively new national identity and only appeared in the mid to late 1800’s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusyns
Oles knew it best and paid the ultimate price for his honesty.
NTFVYR:
The term “Ukrainian” is a relatively new national identity and only appeared in the mid to late 1800’s. …. Until the middle of the 19th century, ethnic Ukrainians referred to themselves as Ruthenians (“Rusyns” in Ukrainian, “Rutén” in Hungary).
Actually, it only really came into use in the 1900’s. Check the term in Google N-Gram in any language or check the number of people arriving at Ellis Island and declaring themselves Ukrainian.
And they did not call themselves Ruthenian either. That as a Latinism that is archaic in English to refer to Russians. Rusyn is also not entirely accurate.
The Slavs of Galicia called themselves “Russkij” – “Russian”. Their political parties, social clubs and Church also used the ethnonym “Russkij”.
The Ukrainian Catholic Church only adopted the Ukrainian language in 1960 for liturgical purposes, it was aroudn the same time she started calling herself “Ukrainian Catholic” instead of “Greek Catholic”.
It is missing Skoropadski – the German puppet during WW1. Today’s dictatorship in Kiev is similar.
“The German general Wilhelm Groener, who, as Chief of the General Staff of the Eichhorn/Kiev Army Group was the strong man in the Ukrainian capital from March 28 to October 26 1918, dispatched the message that though one would “continue upholding the fiction” that “the Ukrainian Rada was governing,” de facto, it was the German Reich “by means of our authority and power.”[5]
…
April 29, 1918, following social rebellions, the Germans put the large landowner Poavlo Skoropadski at the reins in Kiev, quasi as a proconsul. His brutal regime provoked strong protests from the poor peasants. According to one analysis of that period’s German East Policy, “formally speaking” the government was “a dictatorship, however, in the substance, (…) a German General Government.”[6]”
http://german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58703
The building of national identities in rush mode entails these kinds of idiocies. Look at this gallery/museum of Ukrainian greatness. You can´t make this stuff up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_jT-1f4ygg
The Saker,
An interesting video, hopefully Kazzura, or another one of the fine translators will be able to make it more accesible to the whole world. In Lugansk at the City´Canadian Center, in its library 30,000 books with the fantasies, myths, illusions and outright lies of the Ukrainain Diaspora. That Icon in Lvov is just a small sample of all the behind the scenes workings of the “Paperclip Operation “, descendants.
The faithful servants of the Anglo-Zionists, such a contradiction.
they just don´t learn or it is a genetic mutation on these individuals, which now number a few millions, that is what is frightful.
The link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=234&v=bK6jreEAwbU
Saker:
Why is this surprising?
The uniate priests arrested in Crimea after the Russian takeover were found to all have had pictures of Bandera hung up next to icons of the Virgin and Christ.
An excellent article! Once again I’ll say,Ukrainian “nationalism” was started,built,and lives purely off of Russia-hate.It can’t exist without it.That is why it is so stupid for anyone in Russia to imagine they can deal with them.Their entire being is created from Russia-hate.So much so that they willingly sold themselves to another country,just so they could keep up their Russia-hate.The US has more control in Ukraine over the junta than Russia had since before 1991 with any Ukrainian regime.And yet they have no problem being the slaves of an Empire of foreigners living thousands of miles away.No problem with their economy being destroyed.With their people literately dying.As long as they can bask in their Russia-hate nationalism.So also,once again I say, the junta must be destroyed ,no matter the cost.Fascism must be defeated once more in our new century.
We strongly suspect that what Ukrainian nationalists really fear and hate and is not “Russia” or
“Russian world” but rather the looming prospect of neo-stalinism and/or neo-monarchism where Russia will revert back to its “normal system”,—with a stalinist government like North Korea, with
the one supreme leader “god king” who on personal whim decides who lives, who dies, who eats,
who starves, who is allowed to walk around free, who goes to prison or into some labor/death camp, and then backed by elite secret police, one party, small feudal-style elite who can do anything to anyone they please, and a program of “russification” like done under the tsarist regimes, based on belief in the superiority of the Russian culture, religion, language, etc.
And “Russian” here would be just what prevailed in the region around Moscow, presumably.
—Can someone for instance provide information on who were the original speakers of the original modern Russian language? Or is the modern Russian language, as we remember reading someplace, largely the invention of the poet A. Pushkin? So many people out there seem to be foaming at the mouth about the Ukrainian language and how it is “artificial” and not valid, and just a local “dialect” from “Galicia”. So who did originally speak the modern Russian language?
And by the way, probably the most eclectic, invented and in a sense artificial language on the planet is the English language which has incorporated so many words from so many other languages and then tends to mangle their spelling and pronunciation in the process. But nobody objects to learning and speaking English.
What if modern Russian, modern Ukrainian and modern Belorussian were all made official state languages throughout the Russian Federation? Maybe that would defuse the crazy controversies
about which language is “real”. Given that the Russian language is already “almost official” in both Ukraine and Belarus. The Russian language is absolutely in no danger of disuse or extinction anywhere in the area of the former USSR, and it does not need any “special protection”.
Saker, your wife and I are related. Saint Vladimir I “Velikiy” (“the Great”) Prince of Novgorod is my 24th great-grandfather.
Me
→
Vadim Alexandrovich Narishkin
my father
→
Alexander Dimitrievich Narishkin
his father
→
Dmitri Ivanovich Narishkin
his father
→
Ivan Dimitrievich Narishkin
his father
→
Praskovia Nikolayevna Naryshkina
his mother
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Nikolai Dolgoruky
her father
→
Jurievna кн. Долгорукова
his mother
→
Юрий Яковлевич Яковлевич кн. Хилков
her father
→
Анна Илларионовна кн. Хилкова
his mother
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Илларион Дмитриевич Лопухин
her father
→
Дмитрий Никитич Лопухин
his father
→
Никита Васиьевич Lopukhin
his father
→
Василие Яковлевич Лопухин
his father
→
Яаков Алфреуевич Лопухин
his father
→
Алферий Васильевич Лопухин
his father
→
Василий Варфоломеевич Лопухин
his father
→
Варфоломей Григорьевич Лапоть
his father
→
Григорий Ильич Слепой
his father
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Илья Глебович
his father
→
Глеб Михайлович Сорокоумов
his father
→
Михайло Юрьевич Сорокоум
his father
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Юрий Васильевич Редедин
his father
→
Василий Романович Редедин
his father
→
Татьяна Мстиславна Тмутараканская
his mother
→
Mstislav of Chernigov and Tmutorakan
her father
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Saint Vladimir I “Velikiy” “the Great” Prince of Novgorod
his father
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2014/04/who-is-saker.html
Your point is???
Family.
Your link is not about family.
Vierotchka:
Very cool!
I’m glad to learn of another person whose family lineage is known back over 1100 years. My own goes back to Normandy to Hialti de Hauteville and Charlemagne (and back further into the mists of time in Denmark, Sweden, and Kvenland, as does yours from St. Vladimir). I am also a direct relation of Oetzi the Iceman, but by unknown descent.
Its sad so few Europeans or new world European settlers know who they are, as defined by their familial descent. I know that Chinese and Japanese find our European ignorance of and irreverance towards our ancestors baffling.
Actually, a large amount of Europeans know their family’s genealogy, and a fair number of these go back to the eigth or ninth centuries. Practically all Europeans descend from Charlemagne.
The Germans are also now minting their own Ukrainian ‘saints’. The city of Cologne has just awarded Kiev’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, their Konrad Adenauer Prize honoring his “dedication to peace and democracy in Ukraine” [sic]. They’re now putting up pictures of Klitschko at bus stops, etc., all over town. Original link in German from Die Welt.
Celebrate Diversity. Unless you are Orthodox Christian. If you are Orthodox Christian, then you must conform. Or if you are Buddhist. Or Hindu. Or Wiccan. Ex cetera…if you are a heretic, you must conform. or else.
– what are you doing, Taylor?
– I’m reconstructing a past. See this old plastic disc? Tell me, Doctor, would apes create a human boy band and call it – the Monkees??
– what?? Blasphemy! Humans aspiring to be apes! Nonsense!
– would you like me to play it for you, Doctor?
– No! It’s the devil’s music!
– you have been suppressing this dig for a long time. I think you enjoy this music. That’s heresy, Doctor. They were here before you and they were better than you.
– you have a big mouth, Taylor! We have markets, we have finance. Why, just the other day, I traded two bananas for an orange.
– what’s your currency?
– the banana peel.
– what’s your form of government?
– proud banana republic! Would you care to attend one of my lectures on Simian superiority?
please do make a difference and put this on please do make a difference and put this on, for the blessing of all, i am an Orthodox reader, i am warrior from Greece …. i am a step away of joining the Donmpas forces ….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTei2UojmjU …..
Dear The Saker,
Yes it is very true and sad “Ukraine” is not the Kievan Rus – by doing this they tarnish and destroy the true history.
“Also, on a personal note, my wife happens to be a direct descended of saint Vladimir”
It must be very distressing for your wife esp. as she has this very deep heritage and connection to Saint Vladimir. Its all about the destruction of christianity tbh. We are dealing with an evil hegemon where death,destruction and desecration mean nothing and are par for the course.
Rgds,
Veritas
“Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus”
“outside the Church there is no salvation”
…”It is known to us and to you that those who are in invincible ignorance of our most holy religion, but who observe carefully the natural law, and the precepts graven by God upon the hearts of all men, and who being disposed to obey God lead an honest and upright life, may, aided by the light of divine grace, attain to eternal life; for God who sees clearly, searches and knows the heart, the disposition, the thoughts and intentions of each, in His supreme mercy and goodness by no means permits that anyone suffer eternal punishment, who has not of his own free will fallen into sin.”…
These folks are not ignorant. They have placed themselves outside of the Church of Christ by their own accord.
Hey Sake, isn’t Russian history an abomination. In our own day, thank heaven the mega-murder of Russian Christians, Catholic and Orthodox, by Talmud-crazed Goy-haters never happened—because they don’t exist—on this site at least.
Petliura, Sukhevich and Bandera are now “saints”
Well, they are certainly birds who flock together. ;D
In other words, these Ukronazis are not even aware of their own historical and spiritual heritage.
Look at any country where zionazis and the capitalist far right have taken over the media and the historical representation. You’ll find the same thing – the USA is another very good example of history being consistently prostituted for current political dupliicity.
what an abomination…what idolatry….what a lie. And who is the father of lies ? that’s who their god is.
Banderastan?? Band-yoogastan!
By the way, speaking of peculiar candidates for sainthood, a while ago I saw a photograph of some
demonstration in Donbass by the Novorussians, and,—kidding you not!—this elder lady was holding a large poster of a man in priestly robes with a saint’s halo around his head, and it was none
other than Josef Stalin. So yes, looks like some out there would advocate for a “Saint Stalin” to be added presumably to the Russian Orthodox collection of saints.—I personally would never pray
to any saint or even any angel. Prayer should be directly and only to the Lord God. Anything else
veers toward idolatry.—And I think that the greatest flaw and deviation happened in the early
Christian church, a deviation which was carried through in both the Orthodox and Catholic traditions, was when for whatever the exact reasons the leadership of the church was taken over
by monastic/ascetical cadres. Lord Jesus notably did NOT lead a monastic or ascetical type lifestyle, so there would be no valid reason to elevate such a lifestyle as morally and spiritually superior.