Word: ruthenian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word encyclical devoted wholly to the situation in Ruthenia, a Czechoslovak province ceded to Russia last June, the Pope asked: "Who doesn't know that Patriarch Alexei, recently elected by the dissident Russian bishops, directed a letter to-the Ruthenian Church, which wants nothing to do with the dissidents, in which he openly preached desertion from the Catholic Church...
...Ruthenian persecution was important in itself, and also as an example of Stalin's use of the Orthodox Church to further Communism's Pan-Slavic program in southeastern Europe. But the Pope's encyclical highlighted an even more important global aspect of the Stalin-Alexei alliance, which had recently reached imperiously into the U.S. Last month the Russian Orthodox hierarchy of the U.S. and Canada, who cut loose from Moscow in 1917, met in Chicago. They heard the Patriarch Alexei's delegate demand submission to Moscow. In pious language, they told him to peddle his Moscovite...
...disturbing note to the Czech Government in London: the Soviet would respect its promise, but Ruthenia showed a strong tendency to join the Soviet Ukraine. Said the Kiev radio: most of Ruthenia's 800,000 citizens speak a Ukrainian dialect, have voted in a plebiscite (organized by the Ruthenian Communist Party) for incorporation in the Ukraine. Already Peoples' Committees were dividing large landholdings among the peasants...
...plans seriously, André Chéradame wrote after reading this brochure, in 1901: "The inevitable war between Germany and Russia will finish this undertaking. If it is successful, Germany will annex the Baltic provinces, Esthonia, Livonia and Courland. She will set up a Polish state and a Ruthenian kingdom to which will be sent the Jews and the Slavs who will emigrate from the Greater German Empire. . . . Pan-Germany will have 86,000,000 people, and the territory subjected to its direct and exclusive commercial control will contain 131,000,000 consumers." Germany came close to ruling "from Hamburg...