Living and Working in the Communist Way
- ID: 14448
- Place: Lviv
- Date: 1959-1959
Videos and films
- ID:
- 66175
- Place
- Lviv Świętoszów (Poland) Krekhiv Univ (Lviv region, Ukraine)
- Date:
- 1969
- Genre:
- Documentary film
- Technique:
- 8mm film
- Color:
- black and white
- Sound:
- Sound
- Copyright
- Oles Dzyndra
- Collection
- Oles Dzyndra
- Description
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The film contains a Soviet newsreel of an anti-religious nature directed against the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
This Soviet anti–religious propaganda film exposes the nature of the “Uniate” Church. It accuses the UGCC of its links with Nazi Germany and of legitimising the activities of the Waffen–SS ‘Galicia’ Division, demonising the figures of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, Patriarch Yosyf Slipy and other clergy. It recounts the “liquidation of the Union” (the Lviv Council of 1946), the “martyrdom” of Bolshevik supporters in Western Ukraine, and the Soviet Union’s struggle against “Vatican agents” in the 1960s.
1) 00:00:00 – 00:04:19 — The Plast headquarters “Sokil”. Plast members from Lviv with the first Plast flag during a reception for President Hoover, who was a guest of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, 1922. Metropolitan Sheptytsky at a Plast camp, 1929. March of volunteers to the SS Division “Galicia” in Lviv, 1943. Still from a German newsreel: Heinrich Himmler visits the training centre of the SS Division “Galicia” in Neuhammer, 1943. Portraits of students at the Minor Seminary in Lviv, 1943–1953. The rector of the academy, Fr. Dr Yosyf Slipy and Greek Catholic clergy greet Governor–General Hans Frank, 1941. Patriarch Yosyf Slipy. The spiritual guardian of the SS Division ‘Galicia’, Fr. Dr Vasyl Laba, bids farewell to the volunteers in Lviv, 8 July 1943. The text of Fr. Dr Laba’s sermon in the newspaper. Fr. Ivan Hrynokh’s report card. Tortured individuals. Article “During the Green Holidays” by Fr. Dr Ivan Hrynokh in the newspaper “Christian Voice”.
2) 00:04:20 – 00:07:55 — Excerpt from Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s film “Victory on the Right Bank” (1945) featuring footage of a Soviet military parade in Lviv. The Holy Dormition Univ Lavra of the Studite Order. The Krekhiv Monastery of St Nicholas of the Basilian Fathers. Exterior and interior of the wooden church. A funeral procession for the burial of fallen Soviet soldiers.
3) 00:07:56 – 00:11:16 — St. George’s Church. The Lviv pseudo–council of 1946. Gabriel Kostelnik’s report “On the motives for the reunification of the Greek Catholic Church with the Russian Orthodox Church”. The Transfiguration Church. The graves of Gavriil Kostelnik and Yaroslav Halan. Shots of streets in the central part of Lviv. Close–ups of students. Confiscated prayer books, Bibles, icons and crosses. Addresses of publishers, names of authors, editors and compilers of prayer books in Canada and the USA. A quote from Pope Pius X in the weekly “Christian Voice” from 1968. Students in the courtyard of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute. Screenplay by: B. Dubovyk, D. Koretskyi, A. Fedoriv. Director — A. Fedoriv, cinematographer — B. Kuptievska, composer — B. Oleksienko, sound engineer — Ye. Ovrutska, editor — A. Forostianyi. Ukrainian Studio of Documentary Films. The film contains graphic material that may be shocking or cause distress, including images of dead bodies. - Language:
- Ukrainian, Russian
- Tags:
- chronicle, church, propaganda, Soviet Union, Greek Catholics, UGCC, Nazism, SS, Joseph the Blind, Vasyl Laba, Pope, Plast, flag, Yaroslav Galan, Gavriil Kostelnik, Bible, diaspora, theologian, dead man, victims, war, Soviet troops, destruction, reconstruction, city, transport, car, tram, village, towel, wreath, truck, funeral, Basilians, student
