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In 1944, the Soviet Army recaptured Galicia and Transcarpathia from the Germans, and the last stronghold of Ukrainian Greek Catholicism fell under Soviet control. Following the arrests of all Uniate bishops and of the "recalcitrant" clergy, the Lviv Sobor of March 1946 nullified the 1596 Union of Brest, which first established the Greek Catholic Church, and forcibly "reunified" the Uniates with the state-controlled Russian Orthodox Church. The post-World War II period saw the gradual suppression of the Uniate Church throughout Carpatho-Ukraine, Poland, and Eastern Slovakia, and marked the beginning of more than four decades of struggle for Eastern Rite Ukrainian Catholics in the USSR to maintain their banned Church against the overpowering alliance of the Soviet regime and the Russian Orthodox Church. Despite the enforced "reunification," the Greek Catholic Church has remained the most important cultural and institutional preserve of national identity in Western Ukraine. The following is an examination of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church's attempts to assert its right to legal existence since the beginning of political and social revitalization under Mikhail Gorbachev.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic church's efforts to assert its right since glasnost are examined. Formally dissolved & driven underground in 1946, the church struggled for decades to open its closed churches but was blocked by administrative obstacles & police reprisals. Not until 1986/87, with the release of Ukrainian religious & political prisioners, did the movement for human, national, & religious rights in the Ukraine take shape. The movement's efforts to legalize the church were rebuffed by Soviet authorities on grounds that legalization was an internal problem best resolved by the Russian Orthodox church. Opposition to legalization was weakened by massive public demonstrations that led to the removal of hardliner public officials, negotiations between the Vatican & the Moscow Patriarchate, the extension of the new law on freedom of conscience & religious organizations, & mass takeovers by Ukrainian Catholics of their former churches. 12 References. D. Generoli

Ausgehend von einem Überblick über die zeitgeschichtliche Entwicklung der Griechisch-Katholischen Kirche der Ukraine seit dem Ende des II. Weltkriegs informiert der Autor über die im Zuge der Gorbatschowschen Glasnost- und Demokratisierungspolitik seitens der bis dato in den Untergrund verbannten Ukrainischen Katholischen Kirche unternommenenBemühungen um eine über die faktische Anerkennung hinausgehende rechtliche Legalisierung. In diesem Kontext beschäftigt sich der Verfasser mit den zwischen der UdSSR und dem Vatikan unter Papst Johannes Paul II. geführten Gesprächen bzw. Verhandlungen über die Problematik der Unierten Kirche resp. der Legalisierung der Ukrainischen Katholischen Kirche sowie mit der Haltung des Moskauer Patriarchats der Russisch-Orthodoxen Kirche in dieser Frage. (BIOst-Klk)

Gradual re-emergence of the Greek Uniate Church and assertion of its legal rights, 1989-90.