And built a playbook.👇

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Series tag: #KGBvsUkraine

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🧵 Thread 1 — “Come Back to Kyiv”: The KGB's Trap for Exiled Nationalists

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And almost everyone who refused was sent to the gulag.

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That’s why memory matters.

Because when the playbook gets reused,
The best defense is to recognize the script.

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So they infiltrated the clergy, forged letters, and planted lies in Rome.

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Here’s what we found in the files👇

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The Vatican never fully bought the narrative.

In 1980, it elevated underground leader Josyf Slipyj to Cardinal.

And in 1991, after the USSR collapsed, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church rose again — legal, visible, and unbroken.

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But for decades, Bishop Volodymyr Sternyuk led the Ukrainian Catholic Church — underground, defiant, and unbowed.

Here’s how he survived their war of lies👇

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Why this matters now:
Because moral smears are still used to break public trust.
Because resistance doesn’t always look loud.

And because disinfo is terrified of people who stand up quietly — and stay standing.

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That silence creates confusion:

Did he give up? Is resistance over? Was he wrong all along?

And that confusion is where disinformation takes root.

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In 1923, the KGB’s predecessor lured exiled hero Yuriy Tutyunnyk back to Kyiv — with promises of revolution.

Here’s how they erased him 👇

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The Lviv Synod was the KGB’s religious forgery.
A vote scripted in Moscow.
With clergy under arrest.

To erase a church that refused to kneel.

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