Both take pride in the common Slavic
identity of their ethnic roots, the prized
familiarity of culture and heritage as
neighbours who share a deep belief in
the faith of their forefathers a historical
interchangeability of custom and belonging.
Shared also is the memory of a savage
looting of food by one leaving the other to
starve in their millions, a gap in fraternalism
time will not heal. Still, until six months ago
both prayed at the same alter of Eastern
Orthodox faith. Now, the Russian Orthodox
hierarchy incites its faithful to mount attacks
on their Ukrainian brethren, to destroy and
to pillage, rape and murder. Now they share
a deep and abiding hatred, one the aggressor
the other victimized by the former's rage at
the 'unChristian' manner of its adversary's
incorrigible defiance of the aggressor's divine
imperial right to share out all that its victim
possesses to its greater advantage in a mad
rush to annihilate its victim's existence.
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