Metropolitan Vladimir Sabodan (1935- ) of Kiev and all the Ukraine, the canonical First Hierarch of the Ukraine. All others are poseurs or Uniate traitors. He is a confessor, being guarded here by Cossacks to protect him from Galician Uniate thugs.
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The Moscow Patriarchate believes that the actions of the Bolsheviks that caused the mass famine of the 1930s should be denounced, but it advocates that we reject all attempts to consider the tragedy an act of genocide. “The subject of the mass famine of the 1930s gives us grounds for reflection, both in the Ukraine and in Russia. Kiev should understand that the Ukrainian people weren’t the only victims of this tragedy, and Moscow should decisively condemn the Bolshevik actions that resulted in this mass famine”, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, the Deputy Head of the MP Department for External Church Relations, told Interfax-Religion on Tuesday.
In his opinion, it was obvious that these “actions were consciously aimed to wipe out an entire class within the nation”. He also fully agreed with the position of the Bishop Aleksandr of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky, the metropolitan vicar for Kiev, who stated the position of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church/MP in regards to holding the famine as an act of genocide, “We tried to avoid this word, because genocide is a crime of one nation against another”. Fr Vsevolod went on to say, “Genocide is historically defined as an act committed to exterminate a people on ethnic or religious grounds, and, that wasn’t the case with in regards to the mass famine of the 1930s. This was a repression aimed at a specific social class. People of various nationalities suffered, the peasants suffered as they were Christians, and contrary to the myths of Soviet propaganda, they didn’t destroy the churches, but, rather, defended them, they rebelled against the Bolsheviks, and opposed collectivisation and the other monstrous experiments on the Russian, Ukrainian, and other peoples”, he noted.
According to him, “Indeed, the Bolsheviks tried to annihilate the peasantry as a class, for they were the foundation of old Russia, and we should decisively denounce the actions of the so-called Bolshevik junta in power at that time”. He said, “It’s necessary for us to condemn these crimes as a completely unacceptable and unprecedented annihilation of our own people on the basis of social class”. He also believes that it is also necessary to pay homage to the victims of the mass famine on the national level. “There’s no one to prosecute for this crime, the Lord Himself judged the guilty if they didn’t repent, but I believe that to call crime a crime and to call the involved institutions criminal would be very useful not only for a correct understanding of the past, but it’ll help us create a decent future as well”, Fr Vsevolod said. In closing, in comments on the recent encyclical of the Holy Synod of the UOC/MP on the topic of the famine, he reflected that “it was formulated and developed quite independently of Moscow, but many clergy and laity in Russia think in the same way, they condemn the Bolshevik crimes in no uncertain terms, as well”.
18 November 2008
Interfax–Religion
http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=27362
Editor’s Note:
Yet another Big Green Weenie Award is tacked onto the wall at Interfax. It wasn’t so bad this time, as only the final paragraph was omitted, but when will they ever learn?
BMD
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