Over the past hundred years, the monks were expelled from the Lavra twice - Nikolai Mitrokhin

Every time the Lavra was returned to the Church, it turned out that some of those who were expelled last time were still alive, and they returned there. Unlike those who persecuted the monks, using power and force. Nikolai Mitrokhin, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Eastern Europe at the University of Bremen (Germany), drew attention to this in his Facebook post, the Information and Education Department of the UOC reports.

“The UOC, which means Ukrainian monasticism, officially began to be expelled from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Over the past hundred years, this has already happened twice — at the end of the 20s, then under Khrushchev.

Every time the Lavra was returned to the Church, it turned out that some of those who were expelled last time were still alive, and they returned there. Unlike those who persecuted the monks, using power and force.

But those who thought that the Church could be “locked up”, robbed, turned into a museum and written in the newspaper that this is the decision of the people – history teaches nothing. Especially if you don’t know it,” the scientist wrote.