DESS expert calls to adopt USSR's experience to promote OCU among population
Liudmyla Fylypovych. Photo: Channel 5
Religious scholar and expert of the State Ethnopolitics Service Liudmyla Fylypovych said in a comment to Channel 5 that the Ukrainian state is wrongly ignoring the Soviet experience of influencing minds in popularizing the OCU.
"We need to work with people. I don't mean that we should lead everyone to the OCU from kindergarten and tell everyone the history of the creation of this church and our aspiration for autocephaly. But we need to explain," Fylypovych emphasized.
She complained that today "our Soviet-era state is remembered exclusively for negative moments."
"But we need to remember that a strong system of influence on people's consciousness was built. We were all builders of communism. So, we need to take these mechanisms into service, but already implement our ideas," Fylypovych stated in the context of promoting the OCU among the population. "And where, for example, is the educational work?"
She assured that in Dumenko's structure "there is an absolutely normal religious Orthodox life". "It would be good if all spiritual life in Ukraine continued in this way," Liudmyla Fylypovych wished.
Earlier, UOJ wrote that Dumenko awarded Fylypovych with an order.
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