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Religious repression in Ukraine
Things have come to a pretty pass when even the BBC has to report the religious repression in Ukraine.
“He also made statements that justified or denied the actions of the aggressor state,” the SBU says. It has posted recordings on YouTube which it alleges are phone intercepts of Metropolitan Pavel.
In one, a male voice believed to be his, describes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “war between the Russian Federation and America until the last Ukrainian is killed”, claiming it was Ukraine that provoked Russian aggression.
This is standard nationalist nation building, sweeping away any rival ideological bases, much like clearing Russian books off library shelves.