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Document Details : Title: A Victim to Nationalism Subtitle: The Ukranian Greek-Catholic Church in its own Words Author(s): SENYK, S. Journal: Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Volume: 51 Issue: 3-4 Date: 1999 Pages: 167-187 DOI: 10.2143/JECS.51.3.2003026 Abstract : Four to seven decades of life under communism, with minimal contacts outside the communist world, have marked Eastern European societies deeply. Populations among which before communist rule nationalism was a strong force were compelled to give lip service to brotherly relations with those towards whom feelings were anything but brotherly, which has only exasperated former antagonisms and prejudices. The Churches are in the world, even if they strive to be not of it, thus share with all of society the effects of living under a communist regime. This is as true of the Churches permitted to exist under the regime’s watchful control as of those officially unrecognised, but, as everyone knew, continuing nonetheless. |