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Khust, 1939. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[marykk1990]

My next post in support of Ukraine is:

Next site, Khust Castle (Хустський замок) in the City of Khust, Zakarpattia Oblast. It's believed to date from around 1090 and was started during the reign of Hungarian King Ladislaus I. It's located on an almost 500-foot tall hill right in the middle of the city. It's in ruins now. It was struck by lightning strikes, and during one storm in 1766, one struck the powder warehouses. And, in 1798, another storm damaged the last remaining tower. Today, there's a hiking trail up to the castle ruins.

#StandWithUkraine

#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻

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i love the idea of foster dad toto and max!

just meeting again randomly in a supermarket years later and nnnnn toto ofc missed max and look at that his pup is all grown up and has a family and is pregnant again and he seems happy and healthy….and that is all toto has ever wanted for max! max very shyly asking for toto‘s number and inviting him for a dinner soon so they can catch up because max wants to properly apologize and thank toto for everything belatedly, and ofc he wants to tell toto everything that happened and introduce him to his partner and pups🥹 toto immediately going into dad mode and asking if max‘s partner is around and if they‘re good to him?? if not he needs to tell him!! max fondly rolls his eyes but he appreciates it. and he‘s so happy that he got the courage to walk up to toto!

Plss Toto would be so emotional seeing his pup (cos in a way he still sees Max as one of hid pups, even though it didn't work out) all healthy and grown up, a little toddler on his hip and his baby bump slightly showing through the oversized sweater.

Max hugging Toto and whispering an apology and Toto just tells him it's okay, he always understood what Max reacted the way he did when he fostered him. The little pup on Max's hip looking at Toto curiously and then giggling and waving his chubby arms and Toto is about to melt into a puddle on thr floor!

Max shyly asking for toto's number and to meet up for lunch some day and Toto eagerly agrees, khust rumbling like crazy and looking so relieved and Max feels a pang of guilt hurting this man all that time ago...

Toto also asking if Max has a partner or is raising the pup alone and Max just chuckles and nods at Dan or Charles, who is just walking into the aisle with a goofy smile and a ton of snacks under their arms sksk

Toto still murmuring he is there if Max ever needs help or needs someone punched and Max just purrs and is so happy he mustered the courage to talk to Seb!

[ohsalome]

Hi! A Slovak... Supporter? Fan? Person that has agreed with a lot of your stuff? Anyway, you talked a lot about common history of Ukraine and Russia, but I was wondering about the Ukrainian perspective on the period in which we Slovaks lived with parts of the Ukrainian nation in one state, that is, the Habsburg monarchy and especially First Czechoslovak Republic. Like, what were you taught in school about Carpathian Ruthenia? Is this period remembered more positively or negatively?

Hiiiiiii Minette! I remember you <3

A quick disclaimer beforehead: I finished school before 2014, things might have changed since then. I will be referring to modern textbooks in order to fix the gap, but bear in mind I had no experience of learning from them and I don't know what the teachers are like today. But the general vibe I have from my school years is that we learned a lot about russian empire and Rzeczpospolita, but not nearly enough about other eastern european countries. Looking at the current programme, it seems like the things have improved since then somewhat.

The general imperssion I have left about the Habsburgs is that it was opressive towards ukrainian pesantry and ukrainian national distinctiveness, however in comparison with russian empire, some laws were better. It's kind of a "lesser of two evils" situation. There were many revolts, one of the most prominent being оприщина (idk how it's translated in slovak... but in polish they call them zbójnicy) that are generally perceived as a righful uprising against the unjust opression.

As for the First Czechoslovak Republic, I am surprised to see that modern books dwell more into it than I remember from my school years. (Although it might have been the proverbial "you were just drawing the eye" situation). In general, I'd say it's described with a lot of sympathy, with the exception of the times Czechoslovakia shut down the separatist movements and/or movements for unification with other ukrainian republics.

The history of Czechoslovakia has become a successful example of parliamentary democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. [...] Czech and Slovak politicians voluntarily agreed to unite. This union, combined with a relatively tolerant attitude to national cultures, allowed the state to strengthen. - Історія: Україна і світ. 10 клас. Гісем

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary, the majority of the Ukrainian population of Transcarpathia spoke in favor of unification with the Ukrainian People's Republic. However, on May 8, 1919, the Central Ukrainian People's Council, created by representatives of Uzhhorod, Presov and Khust councils, proclaimed the unification of Transcarpathia with Czechoslovakia [...] where it was guaranteed the rights of autonomy. The Ukrainian population of the region in Czechoslovakia did not experience as much discrimination as in Poland or Romania. - Підручник по Всесвітній історії. 10 клас. Щупак

In political development Czechoslovakia was the most democratic state in Europe. [...] T. Masaryk had close ties with Ukraine. He was sympathetic to the Ukrainian liberation struggle and supported Ukrainian emigration. In the years between the two world wars, the Ukrainian Free University, the High Ukrainian Pedagogical Institute named after M. Drahomanov, the Ukrainian art studio and the gymnasium were established and actively functioned in Prague. [...] In the Carpathian Ukraine and Slovakia, Hungarian national parties advocated the annexation of these lands to Hungary. Alongside them were Ukrainian political parties that sought autonomy for Carpathian Ukraine. - Підручник по Всесвітній історії (рівень стандарту). 10 клас. Сорочинська

Those were just some passages relevant to your question, but for the most part the textbooks focus on Masaryk, the policial and economical systems of the Czechoslovaika, and the Munich agreement. On the topic of the latter, there is this one quote that I find sadly relevant:

From the statement of the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia K. Croft to the Ambassadors of England, France and Italy (September 1938): "For us it is a disaster… I do not know whether your countries will benefit from the decision taken in Munich. In one thing we are sure - we are certainly not the last, after us others will suffer."

Can't really speak for the "is it remembered more positively or negatively" aspect, becuase (a) this topic isn't brought up often in the current conversation about history, and (b) I don't have relatives from that region that could testify from their own personal experience. The impression I got from reading the textbooks is neutral to positive.

Thanks for the question, this was fun to research!

[ericalto]

Is Ukraine's largest church still pro-Russian? | News of the Russia-Ukraine war

Khust, Ukraine In Transcarpathia, the westernmost region of Ukraine, they say “Praise Jesus” instead of “hello”. Transcarpathia, known for its piety, lively folklore, forested mountains and illegal pirates, was once ruled by the Greek Catholic Church which maintains Orthodox traditions, but considers the pope as its spiritual leader. Transcarpathia did not become part of Russia until Soviet…

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Is the main church in Ukraine still allied with Russia? | | News of the Russian-Ukrainian war

Khust, Ukraine “Praise Jesus” instead of “hello” is what one often hears in Transcarpathia, the westernmost region of Ukraine. Transcarpathia, known for its pious, adventurous, mountaineers and people-smugglers, was once ruled by the Greek-Catholic Church, which retained Orthodox traditions but saw the pope as its spiritual leader. . Transcarpathia had never been part of Russia until Soviet…

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Is the main church in Ukraine still allied with Russia? | | News of the Russian-Ukrainian war

Khust, Ukraine “Praise Jesus” instead of “hello” is what one often hears in Transcarpathia, the westernmost region of Ukraine. Transcarpathia, known for its pious, adventurous, mountaineers and people-smugglers, was once ruled by the Greek-Catholic Church, which retained Orthodox traditions but saw the pope as its spiritual leader. . Transcarpathia had never been part of Russia until Soviet…

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Is the main church in Ukraine still allied with Russia? | | News of the Russian-Ukrainian war

Khust, Ukraine “Praise Jesus” instead of “hello” is what one often hears in Transcarpathia, the westernmost region of Ukraine. Transcarpathia, known for its pious, adventurous, mountaineers and people-smugglers, was once ruled by the Greek-Catholic Church, which retained Orthodox traditions but saw the pope as its spiritual leader. . Transcarpathia had never been part of Russia until Soviet…

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Is the main church in Ukraine still allied with Russia? | | News of the Russian-Ukrainian war

Khust, Ukraine “Praise Jesus” instead of “hello” is what one often hears in Transcarpathia, the westernmost region of Ukraine. Transcarpathia, known for its pious, adventurous, mountaineers and people-smugglers, was once ruled by the Greek-Catholic Church, which retained Orthodox traditions but saw the pope as its spiritual leader. . Transcarpathia had never been part of Russia until Soviet…

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Khust, Ukraine – “Praise Jesus” instead of “hello” is what one often hears in Transcarpathia, Ukraine’s westernmost region. Known for piousness, mesmerising folklore, forested mountains and inventive smugglers, Transcarpathia used to be dominated by the Greek-Catholic Church that preserved Orthodox rites, but considers the pope its spiritual leader. Transcarpathia had never been part of Russia until Soviet leader Joseph Stalin annexed it in 1944, imposing the Russian Orthodox Church whose top clerics collaborated with the KGB, the main security agency of the Soviet era. “Soviet intelligence either forced all [Greek-Catholic] priests to the pro-communist Orthodoxy or killed them off in Siberia,” Oleh Dyba, a publicist and scholar of Transcarpathia’s religious life, told Al Jazeera. This is the second year when Ukraine celebrates Christmas on December 25 after hundreds of years of celebrating it on January 7 in accordance with the Gregorian calendar still used by the Russian Orthodox Church. But even so, the formerly pro-Russian Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) remains the country’s largest religious see. Moscow Patriarch Kirill, who heads the world’s largest Orthodox see, was one of those who collaborated with the KGB. He remains the closest ideological ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB colonel. Kirill is accused of purging dissident priests, he has described Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine as a “holy war”, and he has said that Russian servicemen dying in Ukraine have their sins “washed away”. “Russia is virtually returning to the discourse of medieval Crusades,” Andrey Kordochkin, an Oxford-educated theologian who left Kirill’s church to join the Istanbul-based Patriarchate of Constantinople, told Al Jazeera. More than a millennium ago, Constantinople dispatched Orthodox priests to baptise Kyivan Prince Vladimir, a pagan Viking whose state would give birth to what is now Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. The UOC was a sizeable and essential part of Moscow’s religious empire with thousands of parishes and priests. Some of them espoused pro-Russian views after Moscow annexed Crimea and backed separatists in the southeastern region of Donbas in 2014. “Their priest refused to pray for my cousin who was fighting in Donbas in 2015,” Filip, a resident of the Transcarpathian village of Chynadievo, told Al Jazeera. “Since then, I never set foot in that church.” Meanwhile, the separatists turned against pro-Ukrainian clerics. One of those targeted was Archbishop Afanasy, who faced a mock execution in June 2014 in the rebel “capital” of Luhansk. He was blindfolded, placed against a wall and heard a shot that did not touch him. He left Luhansk in his rundown car whose brakes were deliberately damaged by the rebels, Afanasy told this reporter in 2018. UOC vs OCU In 2019, Ukraine’s pro-Western government established the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) that reports to the Patriarchate of Constantinople. However, despite cajoling, coercion and persecution of clerics, the formerly pro-Russian UOC remains Ukraine’s largest religious see. It officially broke away from Moscow and helped the war effort by hosting refugees and collecting humanitarian aid and donations for drones and medical supplies. But many of its leaders have been under fire for their real or alleged pro-Moscow sympathies. Metropolitan Mark, a white-bearded 73-year-old whose religious realm is centred around the tiny Transcarpathian town of Khust, is one of them. In the past two years, he has been accused of having a Russian passport – along with two dozen top UOC clerics, and building a $225,000 house in Sergiev Posad, a spiritual centre outside Moscow where he had studied in the 1970s. Mark’s nephew, driver and deacon Volodymyr Petrovtsyi faces desertion charges after fleeing his military unit in October and reportedly saying he did not want to fight his “Russian compatriots”. One of Metropolitan Mark’s clerics told Al Jazeera that the claims about the house and the passport were false. “I can tell you wholeheartedly that this is not true,” Father Vassily said, standing inside the Khust cathedral, whose walls and ceiling were filled with depictions of Evangelical scenes and icons. He, however, claimed that back in 2018, popular comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought the UOC’s support ahead of the presidential vote. Father Vassily said, without providing any evidence of this exchange, that Zelenskyy secured the support after pledging to convert to Christianity – but never stuck to his alleged “promise”. “Since then, he punishes and persecutes us,” Father Vassily claimed. Al Jazeera could not independently verify Vassily’s claims. Since 2022, more than 100 UOC priests have been suspected of treason, collaborating with Moscow-appointed officials in occupied regions and spreading Russian propaganda, Ukraine’s Security Service, the main intelligence agency, said in August. That is when the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s lower house of parliament, banned the UOC to “strengthen national security and protect the constitutional order”. ‘Pretty risky to experiment with compatriots’ The move is, however, extremely counterproductive, according to a German researcher who spent decades studying Ukraine’s religious life and visiting dozens of parishes. Far-right groups pressure the UOC into submission forcibly, taking over parishes and snubbing their parishioners who fight on the front lines, Nikolay Mitrokhin of the University of Bremen said. “When Ukraine is losing on the battlefield, it’s pretty risky to experiment with its compatriots this way,” he told Al Jazeera. The pressure violates Ukraine’s constitution and attracts criticism from the collective West, jeopardising the supply of military and financial aid, he said, adding that the pressure gives the Kremlin a perfect excuse to lambast “Kyiv’s neo-Nazi junta,” spread anti-Ukrainian messages, and appropriate parishes in Russia-occupied Ukrainian regions. On December 16, popular chef Evhen Klopotenko filmed a culinary show on traditional Christmas dishes in the canteen of the Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra, a mammoth religious complex in central Kyiv. Most of the ancient complex belongs to the UOC. The Kremlin responded to the news with predictable derision – and shared it with the pro-Russian audience in the former Soviet Union. “They take over churches to turn them into circuses,” Nilufar Abdullaeva, a self-described “Russian patriot” living in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, told Al Jazeera. “They lost all shame.” The official ban on the UOC will only force it underground, and it “will sooner or later emerge from there with an image of martyr and winner”, Mitrokhin said. Lastly, the shutdown of parishes may damage and destroy thousands of historic buildings that need constant attention, repairs and heating during harsh Ukrainian winters. “In a short while, the catastrophic destruction of frescoes and then of buildings begins,” Mitrokhin said. “Therefore, a huge slice of Ukraine’s own cultural legacy will be gone.” https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/A-cleric-outside-St.-Michaels-Monastery-in-Kyiv-the-seat-of-the-independent-Orthodox-Church-of-Ukraine-002-1735041743.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440 2024-12-24 13:06:43

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Is Ukraine’s largest church still pro-Russian? | Russia-Ukraine war News

Khust, Ukraine – “Praise Jesus” instead of “hello” is what one often hears in Transcarpathia, Ukraine’s westernmost region. Known for piousness, mesmerising folklore, forested mountains and inventive smugglers, Transcarpathia used to be dominated by the Greek-Catholic Church that preserved Orthodox rites, but considers the pope its spiritual leader. Transcarpathia had never been part of Russia…

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[omg-lucio]

Líderes de "Karpatska Sich" Khust, marzo de 1939

Una fotografía del comandante Dmytro Klempusch, en el centro, con sombrero negro, y un grupo de oficiales de Sich en Khust, la capital de los Cárpatos-Ucrania que cayó en manos del ejército húngaro, en marzo de 1939. Las tropas checas y ucranianas, incluido el cuerpo de Sich, fueron dispersadas a las montañas, algunos retrocediendo a través de la frontera rumana. El joven oficial que queda de Klempusch es el doctor Shpilka, primo de Bohdan Shpilka, obispo ucraniano en Nueva York. A su izquierda está A. Dolyn. Otros no están identificados. (Foto AP)

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Police open investigation over attempted suicide in Zakarpattia Oblast enlistment office

The police launched an investigation into the circumstances of a supposed attempted suicide by a man in the Khust military enlistment office in Zakarpattia Oblast, Hromadske reported on March 16, citi Source : kyivindependent.com/police-op…

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