Appeal to the Pope Joann Paul II
from the Don's Cossacks, Russian community and
Orthodox congregations from Lugansk town and Lugansk
region
You as the high priest of Roman church know very well how many disasters You and Your followers have brought to the people of Orthodox Russia.
We think about You as about the wolf in the sheep's clothing, because we know, that under Your assurance of love and peace is the wish to destroy the Orthodox believers from the Earth's face with a help of inquisition fire. Under Your instigation during the last ten years in Western Ukraine three orthodox "eparhies" were destroyed, such as Lvov, Ivano-Frankovsk and Ternopol'.
The pogrom was accompanied with raging of violence from the Uniate Church members, massacre and even murders of the Orthodox believers with requisitioning of many thousands of temples.
That is why we consider Your wish to visit Ukraine as an outrage and a wish to start religious war. But we would like to let You know, that we could not guarantee Your safety because You'll be damned by our people.
That is why we kindly ask You to come to your senses and refuse Your wish to do blasphemy and visit the cradle of Orthodox Russia – Kiev.
Accepted on February the 19th (March 4th New Style)
2001 in the week of the Orthodox Celebrations.
The Head of the Russian community of the Lugansk region Luzganov V.I.
Ataman of the Don's Cossacks of the Lugansk region colonel Shein A.A.
Ataman of the Don's Cossacks of Lugansk esaul Polkovnikov A.A.
The Head of the military historic reconstruction club "Don" esaul Cherepahin V.P.
The Head of the Orthodox congregation Saint Sergiy Radonezhskiy
Shkorinov V.P.
The Head of the Orthodox congregation Saint blessing Grand Duke Alexander Nevskiy Karabulin V.B.