What Ukrainians are distracted from by Uniates and schismatics

Behind anti-church provocations and other distracting tinsel lurks a large-scale law-making conveyor belt that promises to change the lives of millions of Ukrainians. Perhaps, it was the way conceived: while "biomass" is engaged in the discussion of church conflicts, ban of social networks and visa-free travel, parliamentarians will adopt unpopular bills.

Getting to the crux of medical, educational, pension and other reforms, you understand that they are all connected by a single logic. This logic is not only economic or legal, but also spiritual and ethical. And that is why it is a challenge for all who share Christian values. From the TV screens we are convinced that a new era is coming, which will leave behind an "out-dated Soviet spirit", "slavish mentality" and corruption. What will come to replace them? And will it actually come?

Freedom with a guillotine behind the back

Critics of the "Soviet Union" usually mean a habit of relying on the state in everything. From their point of view, state "paternalism" must go into oblivion. They should be replaced solely by a private initiative and personal responsibility. At the same time, "fighters with Soviet Union", like others, complain about the increase in utility rates and do not mind stealing electricity cheating the meter.

Listening to the statements of ministers, their deputies, other officials of different rank, you realize that the state's concern for the citizens of the country will really cease to be its priority. "The hospital near the house is inefficient," says the Deputy Minister of Social Policy, "The school near your home is not good," echoes him the Ministry of Education. "An ambulance car is not a taxi," the head of the Ministry of Health chops.

The creation of hospital districts and supporting schools is a phenomenon of the same order. Instead of decentralization, we get radical centralization. Small villages and small towns will lose part of the infrastructure in favor of larger towns and cities. Behind beautiful words about the accessibility of quality services (medical or educational) is just a desire to save by closing clinics and small schools.

At the recent round table of the Ministry of Health, its representatives complained that too much money is spent on treating the population. Something like Ukrainians do not care about their health, which leads to a load on the state budget. Head of the Ministry of Health Ulyana Suprun claims that there are too many highly specialized doctors in Ukraine, but GPs and family doctors are needed. And basically, the prevention of disease is our everything. Do you want to be healthy? It is better to eat and exercise, the Ministry of Health advises on the verge of mockery.

The new pension reform will force Ukrainians from 2028 to work until old age, only to earn the necessary minimum insurance experience – 35 years. The rest, apparently, will be content with a meager social allowance. If you want to earn a pension – force your employer to get the salary out of envelopes, as we are advised by well-fed officials. What if the employer simply dismisses you for such claims, they are unlikely to explain.

Unions? Protection of workers' rights? Recently there was a very amusing incident at one of the enterprises of Krivoy Rog. Workers and representatives of independent trade unions demanded to raise their salaries. At the same time, the leaders of the official trade union of the enterprise ... were reporting against them in the Security Service, the Prosecutor's Office and other authorities. Reportedly they jeopardize the stability of the plant.

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There is something Bolshevik in this – to sacrifice millions for the sake of a "bright future". The education of the "new man", free from the hated "Soviet regime", resembles learning to swim by throwing the child out of the boat directly into the water. If the child learns – he will survive, otherwise he will drown. At one time, liberal Russian politician Anatoly Chubais said, “Why are you worried about these people? Well, 30 million will die out. They did not fit into the market. Do not think about it – the new ones will grow." How many millions "will fail to fit into the market" in Ukraine?

Advertised freedom is more like a lottery. You run to the oasis, and the earth falls behind you. Someone does not have time and flies into the abyss. Or another picture: you run away from the train. An old grandmother with a crane is not catching up: she is dragged her under the wheels, blood, guts, and torn limbs. An unpleasant naturalistic picture – yet it is an absolutely appropriate analogy. All of us will see those who "were unlucky” like the old woman. This could be a neighbor who was not taken to the hospital in the center of the hospital district, or your own grandmother, who did not have enough money for medicines.

If someone survives to enjoy well-being, it will be paid for by the deaths of those who did not catch up, stumbled and fell. One thing is when it's an accident and another when it's imposed conditions.

We all know how the advantages of liberalism and "European values" are described: freedom, initiative, creativity, democracy, social elevators, investments, free competition. In our reality it is far from that beautiful picture: the eternal job search, a penny salary and a pension, life on credit. Anyone can become a loser. As the well-known proverb says, “there is no fence against ill fortune.”

Fight with the “Russian world” and the Church is a distracting maneuvre

Such unpopular reforms simply cannot but cause outrage among the majority of the population of Ukraine. However, with the help of certain political technologies it is possible to redirect the attention of Ukrainians to other pseudo-problems.

One of the political technologies is called the creation of the problem. This is a purposeful selection of information and attaching high importance to one event and low significance to the other. The media can inflate an insignificant problem and belittle a serious one.

Another technology is called creating a threat. Its main task is to get people to live in fear in any way. After all, demoralized and intimidated people do or at least approve of actions that are completely unprofitable for them.

"Reorienting aggression is the simplest and most reliable way to neutralize it. It is satisfied with ersatz objects more easily than most other instincts, and finds complete satisfaction in them," “today the scare of the enemy is still a very powerful tool for demagogues to create unity and an inspiring sense of belonging," we read from Konrad Lorenz, an Austrian scholar.

It is not difficult to guess that the information fakes against the UOC, the rhetoric of the leaders of the UGCC and UOC-KP are very similar to information technologies aimed at distracting the people from economic problems.

On the other hand, it is a way of pressure on the canonical Church with the aim of "taming" it and subordinating it to a specific political vector. The goal of the persecutors of the Church is not at all to deprive it of mythical dependence on the ROC, but to force it to support the current government.

The notorious "United Local Church" is needed for ideological support of the unpopular actions of the authorities. Feel the irony – the Russian Orthodox Church is accused of fusing with the power and cultivating the "slave mentality." However, it is namely the Uniates and the schismatics that are fulfilling this role – blessing the exploitation of Ukrainian citizens, distracting them from the struggle for their rights.

The population is begging, while the Uniates and the Kyiv Patriarchate are shouting about the terrible and dreadful "Russian world" and "Moscow Patriarchate". Everything is done to divert attention from much more pressing problems. In return, the state ensures patronage for them. Nothing personal – just business.

When the Church is truly with the nation

As an example, one can cite a similar situation in Greece. The same regime of austerity under the "sensitive" leadership of the IMF. The same imposition of gay parades and secularization. But the Greek Church in these conditions is not silent and exposes the government to severe criticism.

"Europe is trying, through new laws and the spread of heretical teachings, to root out all the holy from the souls of modern Greeks and to decapitate Greece from Christ. We are committed to Byzantium and Greek Orthodox values. No matter how the invaders tried, we will not surrender and will not accept the plans of the memorandums of international creditors and anti-Christian, immoral, neo-liberal instructions from Europe," Metropolitan of Tamassos Isaiah criticizes Europe's policy towards Greece.

"Today I do not see a Europe of solidarity, but I can see every day, more and more obviously, the Europe of exploitation. It is necessary that the foundations of this Europe return to their initial point – from where it began, with the same thoughts and the same purpose," the Primate of the Church of Greece said.

Archbishop Jerome also stated that the Greek government is involved in a series of reforms and measures that are imposed by international creditors and that seek to "worsen the state of our society and devalue our history and our traditions, eradicate the institution of the family, impose perversions, damage our language and show contempt for our age-old civilization, our homeland, our faith."

"The church and the clergy turned into a punching bag, which is dealt severe blows. What is happening now is unconstitutional. Why is the religion of the majority of the Greek people discriminated against?” Metropolitan Dionysius of Corinth is outraged.

"After a while we will become guests in our own country. The glorified Greece was enslaved without a fight and war! The accomplices of Western politicians are our unworthy and irrational politicians of all shades and parties that ruled and continue to rule Greece," said Metropolitan Ambrosius of Kalavryta.

You can replace the word "Greece" with "Ukraine", and the coincidence will be one hundred percent. Such angry statements of the Greek hierarchs count in dozens. It's ridiculous to think that the "hand of Moscow" got to Greece, forcing it to abandon the "pleasures and amenities" of Europe. But in fact, Greece, unlike Ukraine, is already a member of the European Union. Yet this fact does not prevent the Greek Church, unlike the Uniates and the Kyiv Patriarchate, to protect its people.