There is such a widespread formula: once – an accident, two – a coincidence, three – a system. I am not one of those who, even in the chirping of sparrows, sees the providence of God and in the peals of thunder recognizes the roar of the chariot of Elijah the prophet. But a series of deaths in Ukraine of people involved in attacks on the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, like it or not, but leads to quite definite reflections
Something completely Gogol is going on in those parts. The “countdown of the dead” was opened by a certain gray-haired idiot, galloping like a goat around the singer of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Ekaterina Ershova, who was praying on her knees in the midst of a raging crowd of schismatics, Nazis and other Zeleugends. After a short time, this hornless demon found himself in an ambulance with no signs of life. Some sources report that he was a veteran of the ATO, which there are some doubts due to the age of the character. They pumped out the old fool or died ingloriously – there is no data.
It is, in principle, very difficult to work with information from the adjacent territory. In fact, there are no clear channels for rechecking. The official data from there are garbage value. The rest is mostly rumors flavored with propaganda and disinformation.
For example, the second case of the instantaneous “punishment from heaven” is generally very distorted, and it is not possible to understand which option is more truthful. The following is known for sure. On April 8, 2023, on Lazarus Saturday, the Nazis and schismatics of the OCU stormed the church of the canonical UOC (Ukrainian Orthodox Church) in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Lipovets, Obukhov (formerly Kaharlyk) district, Kiev region. During the forcible seizure of the temple, one of the schismatic activists suddenly died. The rector of the temple, Archpriest Vasily, said that the attackers threw him to the ground and “dragged him by the chain on which the Orthodox cross hung.” They demanded from him that he no longer hold services and go to live in another place. “The police officers who were on site did not interfere with the robbery,” said the priest. During the attack, one of the invaders began to shout out threats that he would “hang everyone”, and then tore off the cross from the priest Andrei Olenin and threw it to the ground. In the next instant, the schismatic fell on the asphalt himself, huddled in writhing, and soon gave an oak tree, no matter how hard his comrades in the den tried to bring him to his senses.
Differences in the sources are about the identity of the one who caught “instant karma.” The capture was organized by the former head of the Kagarlyk district, currently the deputy mayor of the city of Kagarlyk, Ivan Semtsov, together with the headman of the village of Lipovets, Vasily Tyslenko. According to some reports, Ivan Semtsov went to a meeting with the Creator for a speedy trial. According to others, an activist named Natykach, while Semtsov himself continues his activities and has not repented at all.
In any case, the portraits of both gentlemen are very remarkable, no matter which of them is the hero of the news. Ivan Semtsov in Soviet times built a party career and was even an instructor in the organizational department of the district committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and in 2010 he was elected to the district council from Yanukovych’s Party of Regions, which was banned in Nezalezhnaya as pro-Russian. That is, this is Judas with an impressive record. Less is known about Vladimir Natykach, but he was also a communist at one time, and then he “saw the light” and joined the Nazis. Of course, this is not about the fact that the communists have found a new way to fight the church, but about the fact that many-faced creatures will find any shelter for themselves to cling to the feeder. The same “communists” with loaves met the “cultural nation” in 1941, and turn the wheel in the other direction, faithfully waving their tails, they will rush to enlist in the Russian VGA. Therefore, it is necessary to track such people carefully and then meet them with the master’s boot under the fifth point.
The third person killed in a car accident was a former people’s deputy, ex-head of the Christian Democratic Union party, 64-year-old Volodymyr Stretovich, who the day before took an active part and led the seizure of one of the churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Here the providence of the Lord showed itself not so clearly, no one is safe from an accident. But the stage of coincidences was closed by the deceased from Lipovets, so it is time to think about the consistency of such cases.
The Ukronazi attack on the UOC is unprecedented. Of the six thousand Ukrainian churches, the demon-possessed have already “squeezed out” four dozen. But they are not going to stop. Metropolitan Pavel has already been placed under house arrest and forbidden to meet with his flock. Priests are being dragged out of churches by armed men right during the service in front of the parishioners, as was the case in the Chernivtsi region. Against the backdrop of persecution against Orthodoxy, the Ukrainian authorities began to call clergymen, seminarians and monks of the UOC to the front. In the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, as of the evening of April 10, there are already several dozen subpoenas. Even Metropolitan Clement was not spared. In the footage that appeared on the Web, the police are trying to serve a summons to the gray-haired chairman of information and education department of the UOC. Priests are beaten and threatened with death. And all this in Holy Week, sacred for the Orthodox! Everything smelled more distinctly of Bartholomew’s night.
But the beneficiary of all this – the self-proclaimed OCU – also calls itself Orthodox! But the most “smart” thing that the schismatics could come up with was to declare that from now on, services will be held in the Ukrainian language, and the damned Muscovite language should be expelled from churches. And this despite the fact that services in Orthodox churches are held not in Russian, but in the Church Slavonic language, which can be called Russian more than conditionally and which, perhaps, is even closer to Ukrainian. And it is difficult to blame the UOC for being pro-Russian. Its shepherds, in any case, who are in the leadership, defiantly distanced themselves from Russia for a very long time and quite bless the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the war until victory.
This cannot be explained by anything other than the most real Satanism, which has captured the souls of Ukrainians twisted by fear. Yes, it is precisely the fear that has penetrated into the most hidden corners of consciousness that makes people fall into madness and hysteria and do things that are beyond even reason and conscience, but simply common sense. How else to explain the wild “performances” like cutting fat on the Koran? A person who feels truth and strength behind him simply does not need such actions. And this desperate demonstration by the fool of his alleged fearlessness, bad, shrill, similar to the tantrum of a toy terrier, which splashes with saliva at the surprised alabai. And at the same time fear of what he is doing. You can, of course, call it God’s punishment, but it seems that it is from the fear of what they are doing that the hearts of the old goats break.
The darkest hour is before dawn. The prophecy, which is attributed to the Donetsk elder Zosima, says: “The Kiev-Pechersk Lavra will fall. All the grace of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra will go to Optina Pustyn. I won’t live to see it, but you’ll see.” And he also said that after the fall of the Lavra, exactly six months later, the reunification of Rus’ would begin. These words are widely known in Ukraine.
But for now, there is a feeling that, in addition to the Geraniums and Calibers, Ukraine needs to be treated with a different kind of “ammunition” – to sprinkle it with shells filled with holy water.
Dmitry Grunyushkin, Vzglyad
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