Even these few churches are forced to register with the state and cannot preach their doctrine outside of the parish walls. Despite this suppression. the Ukrainian people. always fiercely religious and nationalistic. contain more than 4.000 of the total of 11.000 Orthodox churches now open. Protestant Ukrainians have been active since the early 1960s in a reform movement against state control and fully half of the reported 10.000 Soviet Protestants demanding emigration because of religious repression live in the Ukraine. All of this demonstrates that despite 62 years of oppression the Ukrainian nation maintains its determination to be a free and unique people and to enjoy the human rights and privileges that even the Soviet Union guarantees in its own constitution. We will not forget the Ukrainian people in their struggle for social. cultural. and religious freedom.
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