DISINFO: Belarusian Nazi Catholics are encamped in a Catholic Cathedral in Moscow
SUMMARY
Recently, there was a funeral with Father Piotr Korneliuk in the Catholic Cathedral in Moscow. The Belarusian opposition media inform that for years, Father Korneliuk was the Superior of St. Francis of Assisi Monastery in Moscow. At the end of the Mass, the participants sang a Belarusian Nazi hymn “Mahutny Boža” (“Almighty God”) – Father Korneliuk loved to perform this song. “Mahutny Boža” is a poem written in 1943 by a [Belarusian] Nazi collaborator Natallia Arsiennieva. During the war, she worked with the occupation press and fled to Germany with the Wehrmacht. After the war, she worked for the American radio station “Liberty”, which was engaged in subversive activities against the Soviet Union.
RESPONSE
Pro-Kremlin defamatory narrative against Catholics in Belarus and Russia labelling them as “Nazis”.
The claim that the Belarusian Catholic hymn “Mahutny Boža” (“Almighty God”) is “Nazi” has no connection to reality – it was a recurrent claim of Soviet propaganda, which presented all non-Soviet Belarusian culture as “Nazi”. During recent decades, this song turned into one of the most popular spiritual anthems in Belarus. However, the illegitimate Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenka perceives this song as “Nazi”.
Read more about Lukashenka’s recent repressions against the Catholic Church in Belarus here.
See other disinformation messages about the Catholic Church and Vatican here.