Fascio of the Compromise of the Roman and Greek Catholic Churches with the Bolshevik Authorities

Abstract

The problem of relations between the Apostolic Capital and the Soviet state in the interwar period and the interstate Bolshevik authorities and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 1944-1945 has been widely and comprehensively covered in Ukrainian and foreign historiography. The author, in order to reproduce the two vectors of one problem in a holistic way, synthesized them into a single complex, setting up specific aspects: state – Church – relations. And when, in the 1920s and 1930s, the Soviet authorities carried out a brutal struggle against religion (destroying clergy, monasticism, destroying temples and monasteries, removing religious communities from registration), it is natural that the Apostolic See opposed this lawlessness.