Marking the 25th Anniversary of Reunion: He Was Only Twenty
- ID: 14487
- Place: Lviv
- Date: 1964-1964
Videos and films
- ID:
- 66176
- Place
- Lviv Zhovkva Humnyska (Lviv region, Ukraine)
- Date:
- 1969
- Genre:
- Documentary film
- Technique:
- 8mm film
- Color:
- black and white
- Sound:
- Silent
- Copyright
- Oles Dzyndra
- Collection
- Oles Dzyndra
- Description
-
The film contains a Soviet newsreel criticising the activities of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. A Soviet film of anti–religious propaganda, produced by the Ukrainian Studio of Newsreels and Documentary Films. It ‘exposes’ figures and congregations of the UGCC for their collaboration with the anti–Bolshevik movement and their support for Nazi Germany and its paramilitary formations.
1) 00:00:00 – 00:03:22 — Quote from Ivan Franko: “... “For as long as history can remember, Catholicism has been a staunch enemy of the Slavic world. And who knows whether it has not caused it more harm than all the bloody wars...” Interior, sculptural decoration, frescoes and the cathedral’s altar. Portrait of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky from the early 1930s. The complex of St George’s Church. Franz Joseph I and Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky on the steps of St George’s Church. Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, Archduke Wilhelm of Habsburg, January 1918. The article “Let us ring the great bell in alarm!” in the Economic and Cooperative Journal. The article “Self–defence against communism”. Zanders’ article “European Nations Under Bolshevik Rule”. Article “The Crusade Against Communism” in the weekly “Meta”(Purpose).
2) 00:03:23 – 00:05:34 — Wehrmacht soldiers lined up in the shape of a swastika. A statement by the Metropolitan in “Ukrainian Daily News: Official Gazette of the City of Lviv” on 5 July 1941. A concentration camp for prisoners of war at the Citadel. Those executed, tortured, instruments of torture. The dismissal of volunteers from the SS Division “Galicia”. The Governor of Galicia (1942–1944), SS–Brigadeführer Otto Wächter, addressing the volunteers. Recruits of the division in a freight train carriage. Pope Pius XI.
3) 00:05:35 – 00:08:04 — Zhovkva. The Monastery of the Nativity of Christ. The printing house of the Basilian Fathers. Confiscated issues of “Missionary”, “Nyva” (Plow) and “Good Shepherd”. Andrey Sheptytsky’s message “A Warning Against the Threat of Communism” in the weekly “Meta”. List of properties held in trust by the Greek Catholic Metropolis in Lviv. “Prosvita” reading room in Humnyska. The film contains graphic material that may be shocking or cause distress, including images of executed persons and human remains. - Language:
- Ukrainian
- Tags:
- church, propaganda, Soviet Union, Greek Catholics, UGCC, communism, Ivan Franko, sculpture, architecture, baroque, metropolitan, Andrey Sheptytsky, execution, Nazism, swastika, SS, Basilians, photography, chronicle, child, monk, Pope,
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