Anything for 'Hryshchuks', lawlessness for UOC
Roman Hryshchuk. Photo: a screenshot of Hryschuk's Facebook page
Why? Because UOJ journalists have been in pre-trial detention for 8 months (with the prospect of life imprisonment) simply for calling activists of the OCU who seized UOC churches “raiders” or writing the name of Dumenko and сo. in inverted commas.
At the same time, the OCU itself does not limit itself in anything. The other day, its Bukovyna cleric Roman Hryshchuk, who regularly appears in the media together with Epifaniy, assured that it was the UOC to blame for the fact that the Ukrainian army “every day loses a settlement and dozens of square kilometres of area” (by the way, this is an obvious exaggeration that discredits the Ukrainian Armed Forces).
He also called on Ukrainians to make the utmost for the UOC priests “to have the ground burning under their feet”. For example, to deny them service. Do you need to change a part in your car at a service station? Until they convert to the OCU, do nothing. And we hear such things from the Dumenko followers almost every day. If this is not hate speech, what is this?
And if inverted commas in the writing of the dignity can get you many years in prison, what is the penalty for Hryshchuk's “pearls”?
The trouble is that no punishment follows. There is a phrase: “Anything for friends, law for enemies.” In our case, it sounds differently: “Anything for 'Hryshchuks', lawlessness for the UOC.”
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