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I read an article by a Ukrainian publicist. The article was written in the late 1940s. You probably all know this man, but you have likely never read him.
Specifically for you, I have translated an excerpt from the article "From an Inexhaustible Source." If you read to the end, you will be shocked. "The final argument of the Bolshevik system is death, the threat of annihilation, and subsequently the reckless destruction of all who are rebellious and undesirable.
But this argument, alas, proved not to be omnipotent.
The Bolsheviks, adhering to a materialistic ideology, were unable to reach those depths in the soul of a person and a nation that can neither be changed nor destroyed, since their nature, strength, and influence extend far beyond the boundary between life and death. This is the reason for the failure of Bolshevik engineering of human souls.
The trial by death is not withstood by one who considers life to be the highest value. But there are millions of people defending values that are dearer to them than life itself.
The Bolsheviks began a desperate struggle against religion, persecuting and destroying the Church of Christ, making religious life impossible. But they could not destroy the foundations of faith embedded in human souls: the longing for God and the search for the Deity.
Having succeeded in stripping man of all freedom, Bolshevism is unable to crush the very aspiration for freedom. It is inherent in every person and nation, always alive and calling for struggle. Because free will is a gift given by God.
The truth can be put in prisons, concentration camps, driven underground, and falsehood and lies put in its place. But even the Bolsheviks cannot tear from the human soul the understanding of what truth is, the longing for it, and the desire for its triumph. Because truth is the road by which a person goes to God. And neither the Bolsheviks, nor anyone or anything else, is able to lead humanity astray from this path.
Likewise, it will be difficult for the Bolsheviks to extinguish love for one's neighbor, the sense of justice, and the thirst for its triumph. To do this, they would have to abolish God's basic laws, the cornerstones of social and human relations, which always resonate in the soul through the voice of conscience.
The Bolsheviks attempted to decompose nations and turn them into a soulless herd of 'Soviet people,' to burn out national consciousness and national feeling. But here too they will fail to reach the very depths: these feelings and traits are already in the blood; they are naturally inherent to the human soul.
All these indestructible roots of the soul do not allow a person to become a will-less and obedient tool of communism, filled with hatred for God, nation, and man. They compel a person to resist the crimes of Bolshevism and to actively fight for its destruction.
But the strength of this resistance depends on the strength of inspiration of the fighters themselves. The spiritual strength of every person and an entire nation must be cherished and inspired. Especially when they are overburdened by constant, incredible tension.
Does there exist that source which will quench our thirst, which will give strength to our exhausted souls?
Faith in God, in the Savior, strengthens the powers of the soul. In the hardest of times, in the worst life situations, in great misfortune, in patience and struggle, faith in Christ provides the strongest and often the only effective help. This is what we need to think about, where we must turn our hearts, if we want to help our people in their noble aspiration for truth and freedom.
Stepan Bandera."
Are you shocked? I was shocked. And everyone to whom I read this article was shocked. I remembered how, at the presentation of his new project "Great Ukrainians," Savik Shuster said: "Since Natalia Vitrenko constantly rails against the Banderites, it means Bandera is deep in the hearts of Ukrainians." That is why Khrushchev and Stalin faced the task of defaming the name of this man more than any other. Because, perhaps, he is indeed the greatest Ukrainian...
Source: tkalenko.org.ua
P.S. I took it myself from http://smi.marketgid.com/news/559
I read an article by a Ukrainian publicist. The article was written in the late 1940s. You probably all know this man, but you have likely never read him.
Specifically for you, I have translated an excerpt from the article "From an Inexhaustible Source." If you read to the end, you will be shocked. "The final argument of the Bolshevik system is death, the threat of annihilation, and subsequently the reckless destruction of all who are rebellious and undesirable.
But this argument, alas, proved not to be omnipotent.
The Bolsheviks, adhering to a materialistic ideology, were unable to reach those depths in the soul of a person and a nation that can neither be changed nor destroyed, since their nature, strength, and influence extend far beyond the boundary between life and death. This is the reason for the failure of Bolshevik engineering of human souls.
The trial by death is not withstood by one who considers life to be the highest value. But there are millions of people defending values that are dearer to them than life itself.
The Bolsheviks began a desperate struggle against religion, persecuting and destroying the Church of Christ, making religious life impossible. But they could not destroy the foundations of faith embedded in human souls: the longing for God and the search for the Deity.
Having succeeded in stripping man of all freedom, Bolshevism is unable to crush the very aspiration for freedom. It is inherent in every person and nation, always alive and calling for struggle. Because free will is a gift given by God.
The truth can be put in prisons, concentration camps, driven underground, and falsehood and lies put in its place. But even the Bolsheviks cannot tear from the human soul the understanding of what truth is, the longing for it, and the desire for its triumph. Because truth is the road by which a person goes to God. And neither the Bolsheviks, nor anyone or anything else, is able to lead humanity astray from this path.
Likewise, it will be difficult for the Bolsheviks to extinguish love for one's neighbor, the sense of justice, and the thirst for its triumph. To do this, they would have to abolish God's basic laws, the cornerstones of social and human relations, which always resonate in the soul through the voice of conscience.
The Bolsheviks attempted to decompose nations and turn them into a soulless herd of 'Soviet people,' to burn out national consciousness and national feeling. But here too they will fail to reach the very depths: these feelings and traits are already in the blood; they are naturally inherent to the human soul.
All these indestructible roots of the soul do not allow a person to become a will-less and obedient tool of communism, filled with hatred for God, nation, and man. They compel a person to resist the crimes of Bolshevism and to actively fight for its destruction.
But the strength of this resistance depends on the strength of inspiration of the fighters themselves. The spiritual strength of every person and an entire nation must be cherished and inspired. Especially when they are overburdened by constant, incredible tension.
Does there exist that source which will quench our thirst, which will give strength to our exhausted souls?
Faith in God, in the Savior, strengthens the powers of the soul. In the hardest of times, in the worst life situations, in great misfortune, in patience and struggle, faith in Christ provides the strongest and often the only effective help. This is what we need to think about, where we must turn our hearts, if we want to help our people in their noble aspiration for truth and freedom.
Stepan Bandera."
Are you shocked? I was shocked. And everyone to whom I read this article was shocked. I remembered how, at the presentation of his new project "Great Ukrainians," Savik Shuster said: "Since Natalia Vitrenko constantly rails against the Banderites, it means Bandera is deep in the hearts of Ukrainians." That is why Khrushchev and Stalin faced the task of defaming the name of this man more than any other. Because, perhaps, he is indeed the greatest Ukrainian...
Source: tkalenko.org.ua
P.S. I took it myself from http://smi.marketgid.com/news/559