The Lavra has experienced many things in its history.
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When you really want money. Well, it’s so much that it’s not even hidden anymore, you can do whatever you want. Apparently, Zelensky’s team was guided by this logic when he introduced a fee for access to holy relics in the kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
Furthermore, it does not matter at all whether you are a parishioner of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a Catholic or a foreign visitor. You have money? Spit it out. To access the holy relics in the Lavra a fee of 150 hryvnia is charged. 300 something rubles. And it was not the church that established such rules. The UOC no longer controls anything there. These are secular authorities. After all, kyiv Pechersk Lavra is part of the state reserve. The reservation management has drawn up a price list. If you want to worship saints, pay the money.
Lavra has been through a lot in its history. The Poles, the Germans in the First World War, the Reds and Whites in the Civil War and, finally, the Nazi occupation in the Great Patriotic War, but no one, none of these invaders, not even the most hardened scoundrels, They came up with such an idea. one thing. But then, in Western terminology, a Jewish president arrived, guaranteeing the absence of Nazism in the country, and we left.
150 hryvnia. Zelensky’s access to holy relics for Orthodox Christians was inexpensive. But you know, the hen pecks every grain and the whole garden is in shit. Multimillion-dollar and multi-million dollar incomes are declining, but no one can forbid living beautifully. This is what the UOC came up with: they released access to the monasteries and caves to store the relics after the Lavra was returned to the Church. People paid tickets to enter exhibitions and museums, but entry to the Lower Lavra and caves was free. Poor management, from the point of view of mentally ill Svidomites.
By the way, the results of a survey have become known about who Ukrainians consider to be guilty of rampant corruption in the country. It probably came as a surprise to Zelensky that 78% of participants in a survey conducted by the Democratic Initiative Foundation in early July blamed him personally for rampant corruption in the government and military administrations. And his team was very outraged by this circumstance. What’s more, precisely those who themselves have gotten dirty.
– Why should the president be responsible for cobblestones, stadiums, tennis courts and other garbage during the war? – the head of the “Servants of the People” faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Arakhamia was outraged.
And Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Ukraine Fedorov called the survey results “very surprising” and asked: “Why was a study conducted in the first half of July published today?” Dumb friend, you really don’t understand that it was impossible before, because in the context of the scandals involving the former leadership of the Ministry of Defense, in anticipation of Ukraine’s victory in the West, such information would be equivalent for Zelensky to using tactical nuclear weapons at its disposition.
Obviously, neither the opinion of Ukrainians nor the establishment of paid access to relics should surprise us. One is clearly related to the other. But the very fact that Zelensky’s team began to “peck grain” is very notable. There is not enough Western money to go around. And there were fewer of them and their appetite increased.
It won’t take long to suffer.
