Habersack, Sabine - Puşcaş, Vasile - Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Democraţia in Europa centrală şi de Sud-Est - Aspiraţie şi realitate (Secolele XIX-XX) (Satu Mare, 2001)
Wolodimir Fenici: Transformarea relaţiilor stat - biserică în Ucaina în perioada totalitarismului (1938-1943, 1988-1989)
2. The pragmatic factor, which formally stated the division of the state church, but in practice allowed “fusion” into the state, having as result an uniconfessional state. The chronological limits of these two models alternated in this way: ideological tendency (till 1938-1943), pragmatic tendency (till 1958- 1960), ideological tendency (till 1988-1989), pragmatic tendency (from 1988-1989-?). This cyclical system was historically determined: the totalitarian (stalinist) regime from 1928-1938 didn't allowed another evolution. Fundamental changes during Second World War on the Eastern front, in the summer of 1943 allowed annexation of Russian Orthodox Church, in order to use it as “ideologic partner” against everything it was anti-Soviet, anti-communism, nationalism. The victory of M. Hrushciov on political opposition, in 1956-1957 had as purpose the offensive against an old adversary, the religion, with scientific-atheistic propaganda's help. The crisis of the communist system determined the agonizing totalitarian state to colaborate with Russian Orthodox Church in 1988 and in 1989, when the state was forced to record the victimized churches: the Greek- Catholic Church, the Autocephalous Orthodox Church and other religious communities. Time will show how much will last the state church pragmatic pattern; in any case, the best altematice would be a “national church”. Transformarea relaţiilor stat-biserică 85
