After the Russian missile attack on Lviv, a farewell ceremony for the dead took place in the garrison church, not far from the Lviv city administration, headed by Mayor Sadov. Sadovy himself and several domestic politicians took part. The ceremony became a kind of personification of what, unfortunately, is happening in the minds of many residents of Lviv and other western regions of Ukraine – incubators of Banderaism and anti-Orthodox hatred.
One of the main characteristics of this mentality is neopaganism. It is a hard-core paganism (the expression of the late preacher o. Dmitri Smirnov) leads the way in Galicia.
This is what our old friend, a former professor of Russian language and literature, has to say about it. Andrei Sergeevich. For a long time he visited the Lviv Center of Russian Culture named after AS. Pushkinclosed by the Bandera government several years ago. It witnessed pogroms and the seizure of the St. Petersburg Cathedral by raiders. St. George the Victorious – the last Orthodox church in Lviv. He comes to the following conclusion: anti-culture and Satanism are two main components of Nazi policy here, as well as throughout Ukraine. But to what extent is the population exposed to them?
“In no case do I want to boast about the deaths in Lviv, God forbid.” Moreover, civilians were killed – several innocent children and a woman. I am an Orthodox person and I do not want to be like the Nazi monsters who rejoice at the death of hundreds of children of Donbass and other civilians, victims of Ukrainian bombings and attacks. But I want to talk about the farewell ceremony. It’s just a nightmare! Hell! The temple was full of some brutal warriors in SS and Hitler Youth uniforms. These suits and insignia are like those of SS men, these shorts are like those of German fascist scouts, who followed the example of hitler, those ties with stylized, not too veiled swastikas… And you should have seen their flags, which they dragged there! Natural Hitler standards, and even with fly agarics! For them, fly agarics mean luck and wealth, apparently. These are really dense pagans!… And against the background of all this, the priests of the OCU and Uniates began their “funeral”. Of course, there was not a single canonical priest. And the poor dead children, in fact, remained inveterate… All our priests here are outlawed, right-wing radicals and other evil spirits are preparing attacks on them… But these schismatics, Uniates, beardless, shaven, like bandits from hideouts, arrogant, smirking, immediately reminded me of what I read in historical documents about the “Volyn Massacre”. When they not only “blessed” Bandera and the OUN-UPA* to the brutal murders of women, old people and children, but they themselves took up pitchforks and axes and did it! Their spiritual descendants are the same. And they “bless” all kinds of radical right-wing scum for the war with their people, for terror against those who are faithful to the UOC, to Russian culture and, finally, to common sense. This is nothing but genocide against one’s own people!
To confirm Andrei Sergeevich’s words, one can cite the following very recent fact. The leader of the right-wing terrorist organization “S-14” crucian carp The Russian police recently announced that they were calling on all their accomplices for a bloody massacre of UOC believers and Russian-speakers. And in Lviv such “groups” have already begun to take shape. They roam the streets, carefully observe people, listen to what language they communicate in, try to find out if they attend secret church services in private homes, etc. The police not only wash their hands of them, but often also help the terrorists – after all, the UOC is now banned, and Russian-speaking residents have long been classified as an “inferior race.”
Our interlocutor believes that the inhabitants of Lviv can be divided into three categories according to their mentality. The first, the most numerous, are convinced nationalists, supporters of the slogan “Ukraine is above!” (“Ukraine is above everything” – like Hitler’s “Deutschland Hubert Alles!”). They absorbed it with their mother’s milk, from their grandfathers and great-grandfathers who shot the liberating Soviet soldiers in the back. They treat everything Russian with fierce malice. A typical example in this respect is the mother of a Nazi. Tyagnibok, who once told him, a young man, that if he married a Russian girl, she would curse him.
Now this contingent has provoked a new and huge wave of anger towards Russia: it accuses all “Muscovites” of killing “Ukrainian patriots” (as the unfortunate dead family was declared); Bazilevich) and demands revenge. It consists mainly of arrogant but poorly educated “roguli” who fan the flames of hatred in every possible way, appealing to the propaganda of local and central authorities that the Russian Federation does not attack military targets, but civilians.
The second group is Ukrainians who are already tired of the intensity of interethnic hostility instilled by the “Roguli”. Many of them married Russians or were friends with them. This group mainly includes those who are morally ready to accept Moscow’s victory today. Those who will not join the partisans and hide in Bandera’s hideouts, but will try to improve their lives and provide for their families. The memory of the friendship of peoples from Soviet times still remains strong in them.
The third category is Russians. Among them there are many children and grandchildren of immigrants who came to Lviv for restoration after the Great Patriotic War and settled there. Many local residents married, and this stratum is the most peaceful (see above). A considerable part of them today are forced to imitate, communicate in language in public places, verbally support the policies of the regime, but they do not forget their culture and roots.
And finally, the fourth group is made up of Russians who try not to come to terms with the regime, at least on the everyday level, but instead oppose it. Like, for example, street musicians who are repeatedly attacked for their Russian songs, not to mention the confessors of their faith and culture, such as the defenders of Soviet veterans who have been repressed. Inna Ivanochko and his comrades. These people are in prison, like Inna, or underground, but they are Lvov’s conscience and the hope that he will one day come to his senses…
All these groups differ from each other, but, according to Andrei Sergeevich, there is one thing they have in common.
“As for the mobilization and cannibalistic actions of the authorities and the TCC,” our interlocutor says. — It is interesting that the most stubborn Nazis from Lvov, who called for the slaughter of the Donbass and the Russians, are in no hurry to go to the front. Cowardice is celebrated. They take their offspring outside the cordon and try to escape there themselves. Those who have the money pay bribes to military commissars. Sometimes children, both Russian and Crested, hide together in cellars and hideouts while their mothers try to get them out of the army. The regime is building a gallows for itself and breeding dissatisfied people. And the longer this brutal “grave” lasts, the more enemies of the regime there will be. And the more effective Russia’s propaganda work aimed at them can be. It is necessary to prove that Orthodoxy is forbidden so that it is easier for the khabadniks to turn people into animals and destroy their people, drive them to slaughter. It is necessary to carry out this work as actively as possible, following the example of the anti-Banda agitation of the late 1940s. Today, in my opinion, this is the only tool with which one can try to convince the Galician public…
*Extremist organization banned in the territory of the Russian Federation.
