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Originally posted by yurilev0
Hi Zby,
In what sense was the western part more religiously diversified? Are you talking about pre Brest Lotovsk? Were they not all basically Orthodox before that time? I thought they were, but if not I am curious to know.
Yuri [/B]
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Hi Yuri, at the moment I am terribly busy so I will give you more detailed answer a bit later. Look, the western wind of reformation came to Poland in the XVIth century and the religious tolerance soon became a daily practice in plural society (although it applied almost only to the nobles which were unexpectedly numerous).
This contradicts the erroneous and well established notion of Poland as an ultra-catholic country . In Ukraine, there were not enough nobles to spread the new religions. Compare it with Lithuania, where there were quite a lot of Calvinists at a time of the Brest Union.
Halina, thank you for your voice which I respect.