[Destro]

History is more complex than you admit. The Communists first allowed the "Uniate" and "Ukranian Nationalist" Churches as a tool to fight the Russian Orthodox Church. Stalin, in his paranoid state then ended the policy. Gorbachev re-insatated the "Uniates" as a show of religous tolerance while the Orthodox proper were still repressed.

From the book "Stalin's Holy War":

The Bolsheviks proved far more successful in promoting nationalist splits within the church than they had with the obnovlentsy; in fact, they turned out to be too successful for their own interests. In order to fracture Russian Orthodoxy from within, the Kremlin encouraged, or at least did not impede, the flourishing of Ukrainian and Belorussian splinter groups such as the Ukrainian Autonomous and the Ukrainian Autocephalous churches. Whereas the former, as the name implies, sought to establish a degree of distance between Muscovite authority and the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, the latter wanted outright ecclesiastical independence from Russian authority. Both of these splinter movements quickly attracted enthusiastic adherents, soon becoming foci of Ukrainian nationalism and thus a barrier against the policies of rigid centralization promoted by Stalin as he consolidated his power during the late 1920s. As one historian of religion in Eastern Europe notes, "the greater the ethnic heterogeneity of a society, the more threatening the nationally linked religious organs will be to illegitimate regimes."[59] Stalin therefore ordered these churches closed and their priests arrested. The demons of non-Soviet nationalism proved much easier to summon up than to exorcise, however; when Soviet power in the western borderlands would be smashed by the Nazi invasion of 1941, these two Ukrainian churches, and their Belorussian counterpart, would reappear to haunt Moscow.

[Solon]

The Communists first allowed the "Uniate" and "Ukranian Nationalist" Churches as a tool to fight the Russian Orthodox Church

One thing I have to admit - you don't let facts get in the way of your disgusting bigoted agenda.

Communists never allowed any such nonsense as you are expousing.

Are you not aware that Ukrainian Catholics fell under Soviet rule in 1939 when western Ukraine was incorporated into the Soviet Union as part of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact? It was liquidated in 1946. The repression of Catholics started immediately in 1939.

Did you even know that western Ukraine was not under bolsheviks/Stalin until 1939?

You are aware that the seat of the Ukrainian Catholic church was in Lviv because Catholics previoulsy had been expelled from Kyiv by tsarist Russia?

And btw, that web site was certainly not complimentary towards the Russian Orthodox church. Did you read it? What were you thinking?