Most Ukrainians are Orthodox Christians. But in July this year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a bill into law making 25 December the official Christmas holiday as the country adopted the Western, Gregorian calendar.
  • nekandro@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Isn't the Roman calendar an Orthodox thing? Aren't like 60% of Ukrainians Orthodox?

    Every day Ukraine loses more of its cultural identity as it gets "Westernized" by the West and "Russianified" by Russia.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      as it gets “Westernized” by the West and “Russianified” by Russia.

      What.

      72% of Ukrainians declare themselves orthodox, literally the same church as Russians. Only in 2018 they had the schism but solely on political reasons, not the religious ones, to grab state control over the church.

  • D61 [any]
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    11 months ago

    Meanwhile, Kyiv Orthodox priest Mykhailo Omelian said: "Everything that was related to Russia, and everything that Russia did the same way we did, provoked disgust among people."

    Looks like freedom fries dressing is back on the menu boys! freedom-and-democracy

    • nekandro@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      Do you enjoy watching Ukraine collapse it's economy, irreversibly fuck it's demographics, and send hundreds of thousands of men to their death? Is that enjoyable to you because the lives lost aren't American?

      • lntl@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        USA was able to liberate Ukraine, this is good. Why you hate on USA? USA good

        • nekandro@lemmy.ml
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          11 months ago

          Liberate Ukraine, except for the half of Ukraine that isn't liberated?

          Liberate Ukraine, with hundreds of thousands dead?