Greek-Catholic Church in the context of Halychyna state-church relations in 1940 - at the beginning of the 1950

Abstract

The article provides a systematic analysis of the anti-union policy of the Soviet authorities and state security bodies aimed at ensuring the process of liquidation of the UGCC in the territory of Western Ukraine. The communist government sought formally to legitimize the church monopoly of the Russian Orthodox Church under the control of Western Ukrainian lands, thereby establishing a complete ideological control over the spiritual life of Western Ukrainians. Conducting the pseudo of the Cathedral in 1946 was to complete the destruction of the UGCC as a national religious structure, which by its existence prevented the establishment of the communist regime. In the struggle against the Greek Catholics, a wide arsenal of ideological, repressive and administrative methods was used, and the central role in the implementation of the policy of communist leadership was played by the organs of state security.