Not a day goes by that western politicians and media sing the praises of the Zelensky government in Kiev, holding it up as the gold standard for democracy that we in the ‘free West’ must all embrace and commit our unwavering support.
Unfortunately, the rhetoric hardly lives up to the reality.
This week, radical nationalists in the Rada (Ukrainian parliament) gave their initial approval for a law which would impose an outright ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church after the Zelensky government accused it of “collaborating” with Russia and harbouring sympathies for the Russian speaking population of Ukraine, since the conflict escalated over the last 18 months.
A paranoid Zelensky regime is now imposing a purely political persecution against the Church under the spurious guise of ‘national security’.
Zero Hedge reports…
An ultra-controversial ban on Ukraine’s main religious body, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), has just passed a first-round vote of lawmakers, due to the church maintaining links with the Russian Orthodox Church centered in Moscow.
It comes after Ukrainian security services have conducted several raids against Orthodox monasteries and churches, including the famous Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery.
“Draft law number 8371 on the prohibition of religious organizations associated with the Russian Federation was adopted in the first reading,” lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezniak announced, after it passed 267 to 15.
The UOC blasted the move the get it legally banned as a severe violation of human rights and religious freedoms which violates the European Convention on Human Rights.
PERCEPTION RESET 