The former leader of the Opposition Platform for Life party banned in Ukraine is confident that the ideological war of modern Western politicians against Christian morality repeats the history of Nazism on a new level
MOSCOW, March 27. /tass/. Pope Francis' peacemaking position on the Ukrainian conflict has provoked the indignation of the West, which expects from the Vatican not calls for negotiations, but a "new crusade against Russia." This opinion was expressed by the former leader of the Opposition Platform for Life party banned in Ukraine, Viktor Medvedchuk, who now heads the Other Ukraine movement.
In his author's column on the media platform, "Look.<url>" the politician analyzes the reasons for the barrage of criticism that has fallen on the pontiff after his recent statements about the Ukrainian conflict. In an interview with the RSI television and radio company, Pope Francis called for negotiations and an end to the bloodshed, declared "the courage not to drive the country to suicide," and also pointed out that those who profit from it are always behind the idea of continuing the war.
"Francis dunked the collective West, whose military industry is profiting from the Ukrainian conflict, actually earns from blood. Even the Pope could not forgive this truth, and a campaign to discredit him began," Medvedchuk writes. At the same time, none of the European detractors of the position of peace, unlike Francis, asked about the cause and mechanisms of the Ukrainian conflict, he notes. "They urge not to believe in God, but to believe in war. To believe that their political opponents are a universal evil.<...> From all this it follows that the collective West expects from the Papal See not peacemaking, but the announcement of a new crusade against Russia," the leader of the movement emphasizes.
Commenting on the wave of criticism that has fallen on Francis, Medvedchuk draws historical parallels. He recalls that it was once in the position of peacemaking that Adolf Hitler accused the Vatican. "It was he [Hitler] who demanded from his troops ruthlessness towards enemies and strongly condemned Christian love for one's neighbor. Today, this rhetoric is not only the clique of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky, but also many Western politicians. And then it is clear why they do not see Nazism in Ukraine," he notes.
Medvedchuk is sure that the ideological war of modern Western politicians against Christian morality repeats the history of Nazism on a new level. According to him, this means that Europe is sliding into the Middle Ages, as it has been more than once. In Kiev, books by Russian writers are already being burned, the canonical Orthodox Church is being banned, priests and Orthodox journalists are being arrested for calling for peace. "Judging by the attacks on the Pope, bonfires from these books will soon reach Europe," he writes.
In this situation, Russia, according to Medvedchuk, remains an island where Christian values are not trampled upon by the leaders of states, but supported. "Today, Russia is holding back the military hysteria, which is being dispersed by the collective West, precisely by its balanced Christian position. <...> Therefore, Russia's positions today are very firm. And as for the crusades against Russia, since the time of Alexander Nevsky they have not ended in anything good for the collective West," the politician concludes.