Operation Laurel — Blood Persecution
Фото: RIA Novosti The murder of Vladlen Tatarsky could be a distraction in order to divert public opinion from the capture of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
The time of the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg strangely coincided with a new round of repression against the UOC in Ukraine. How can these events be related?
In Ukraine, persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of the Moscow Patriarchate continues. The day before, as a result of the criminal actions of the security forces of President Volodymyr Zelensky, the governor of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel, was under house arrest.
He is accused of absurd things — allegedly they collaborated with Russia and incited sectarian strife. At the same time, it is obvious that in the conditions of peaceful resistance of the monks of the Lavra, its forceful seizure is being prepared, which Metropolitan Pavel actively opposed. This is almost one of the last temples in the country that has not yet been captured by Nazi youths.
Interestingly, in the last week, the focus of public attention both in Ukraine and in Russia, and in other countries, was shifted towards another topic — the murder of military commander Vladlen Tatarsky in St. Petersburg. These two events (the activation of persecution of the UOC and the terrorist attack) can be connected.
Details — in the material of the correspondent of The Moscow Post.
The persecution of the UOC was not planned and carried out in a short time — this is a process that has been going on in Ukraine for many years, starting with the presidency of Petro Poroshenko. However, it is these days and weeks that he reaches the final stage — the last churches of the UOC are seized, and criminal cases are already brought to the highest hierarchs, for more and more inconvenient reasons.
As Zelensky’s team and its curators in the West probably expected, with the growth of repression in Ukrainian society, tension increased among the parishioners of the UOC and the simply remaining adequate people. In turn, Russia is also increasingly trying to draw the attention of the international community to this criminal bacchanalia.
And almost simultaneously with the detention of Metropolitan Pavel and preparations for the raider seizure of the Lavra, a resonant terrorist attack takes place in St. Petersburg. In which, as it turns out, not only the special services of Ukraine and the West can be involved, but also "kindness" from among the Russian non-systemic opposition. Or can it already be rightfully called extremist, terrorist?
The attack, as you would expect, caused a great public response and a lot of informational "noise" on both sides of the border, as if shifting the focus of public attention from large-scale repression, moving to the terminal stage, to a specific event. In Russia, the incident was met with wild indignation, and in Ukraine, the sympathy of adequate citizens drowned in a sea of mechanics and anger, jubilation and dancing on the bones of the deceased.
Soon, the alleged perpetrator of the terrorist attack Daria Trepova was detained. This event flew around the editorial boards of all European media, where the likely terrorist is called a pacifist, oppositionist, or even almost an accidental person. This, we repeat, against the background of the terrorist attack, in which, in addition to the deceased, more than 30 people were injured, counting the child.
Of course, instead of discussing mass religious repression in Ukraine, European "burghers" are again fed an emotional story about an evil and dark Russia, which, like Leviathan, is ready to absorb an allegedly innocent and absolutely harmless girl.
At this time, hundreds and thousands of UOC believers who prevent the capture of the Lavra during daily mass prayers near its walls remain outside the field of attention of the compassionate European public. And Pan Zelensky cynically declares that Ukraine is the most religiously free part of Europe.
If we consider religious freedom to be rampant schismatics, sectarians and openly radical, extremist groups of pseudo-religious nature (for example, in Ukraine there is a whole conglomerate of fugitive Ichkerian terrorists and Igilovites (ISIS is a terrorist and extremist organization, banned in Russia) — then yes, there is really great "freedom."
But for some reason, in this "flowering garden" (by analogy with the famous expression of Josep Borrell) of interfaith peace and civil liberties there is no place for the canonical Orthodox Church, whose history of presence in the territory of present-day Ukraine dates back more than a thousand years.