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Hi, I'm American. I think same-sex civil partnerships are fine, but not same-sex marriage in a Christian Church. I don't think same sex unions are valid in the eyes of God, but I won't deny them the state benefits. I do wonder why so many Christians are stuck on gay people and not other sins. Divorce is also strictly forbidden, yet divorced people are welcomed in church all the time. Jesus spoke quite clearly about all kinds of sins, so are gay people singled out?
@@johnmartin3134 Drunkenness and heterosexual lust are also serious sins, but you don't see parents throwing out their teenage sons on the street for partying and looking at porn.
There is a slight possibility that the fancy Pencils & Prayer Ropes episodes will be delayed (not too much, tho). Good news: I got a blessing to use a translation of the _Sayings of the Desert Fathers,_ so expect the illustrated versions of the sayings soon. :-) Upcoming clips: Psalm 83, I guess.
Foarte bine! Sunt foarte placut cu canalul dvs. I don't know if you speak Romanian, being from Serbia, and so close to Romania. Of all of its neighbors, the Romanians, who are also Orthodox, historically got along best with the Serbians. I'm not Romanian, but I speak the language. Thanks for providing this valuable educational channel about Eastern Orthodoxy, and keep up the good work!
Thank you for your wonderfully humorous lessons. As a convert in 2006 whose Priest, at St George of Troy, did not have us sixteen converts, from Zion Lutheran in Detroit, go through months of extensive Catechumen study nor be re baptized, Lutheran's do not immerse but do baptize in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit, but told us to continually come to Divine Liturgy to learn the One True Faith. May God grant you many years Glory to Jess Christ!
Yes, generally, a rebaptism is to be avoided if done in the name of Trinity; I myself wasn't immersed, just sprinkled on (a very common practice in the Serbian Church at the time). Glad you liked the videos, I will be making a new Q&A in a couple of weeks. :-)
Brother in Christ, I appreciate your videos yet again, here is my thoughts. I’ve experienced priests who engaged in alcoholism and was intimidated and chastised and hurt by other priests who did not believe me, when yet, it was true. Then I talk to a prominent figure in orthodoxy, and with all flippancy and disrespect they hate and bring wrath upon a needy man. I speak Truth, and ally myself to Christ. I will not give up my faith, but people can be damned sure, I am no respecter of persons. In your kindness brother
Just as children are baptized into the Church and are easy to instruct because of their young minds, humility, and lack of stubbornness that you find in adults, the Church likewise does the same reasoning with monks, as we don't take in people above 30 (except in highly rare occasions) as monks. The reason being that the older you get, the more stubborn and set in your ways you are, and those ways are chiefly the world's ways and the world's wisdom, not the Church's ways and Christ's wisdom. This is why new monastics are almost always young people from 12 to 30 as they are still able to be molded as holy people.
Non-Orthodox here. Although I respect the faith and its followers, there are some *critical* issues I have with it: 1. The Trinity 2. Icons (something which I view as openly idolatrous) 3. The fact that nationalist organizations have successfully infiltrated the Orthodox church (especially within Russia and Serbia)
Concerning fasting, it also depends on jurisdiction. Like in my Antiochian Church, there is no fasting between Pascha and Ascension. Even more simple....
Fasting does not mean that we don't eat food. It means no meat Dairy eggs you basically eat a vegan diet make some pasta e fagioli with a nice broth and fresh vegetables carrots celery and onions fresh garlic cook in the Crock-Pot or on the stove and then add your little any small pasta and it's not really a soup it should have a little broth in the bottom but it's more about the beans and pasta. Any beans that you like will work including lima beans but I do not use black beans because they're not and they never were popular in Tuscany where this recipe comes from. :-)
Is Mary part of the Trinity? That cant be serious. It must have been a troll. I shouldn't do it but sometimes I troll catholic answers protestant gibberish.
I'm a bit confused (please don't answer this question in the next Q&A) about how the Nativity Fast begins on the 15th and ends on the 25th and Christmas is celebrated on January 7th. Much love from an 8-year-old Oriental (Syriac) Orthodox Christian.
Thanks a lot for answering my question and yes you did mispronounce my name but not that much, I got used to it. Tbh I have another question. What is your opinion on old and new calendars and which do you use?
Does the Catholic Church teach the same thing about praying for the dead? I have always remembered learning and talking about how once a soul passes on, it is either in heaven (purgatory) or hell and no prayer can help those in the latter.
Duck Gaming 5000 The Catholics often use Douay-Rheims translation from the Vulgate, the Orthodox don't have an official English translation but tend to prefer the KJV (I am biased I love older English)
Какво је твоје мишљење о Зороастризму ? Да ли су она три мудраца која су дошла на поклозење Христу били припадници Зороастријанства? Ја лично проналазим масу сличности између Православља и Зороастријанства.
E pa lepo... Istocno od Izraela nalazi se Iran ( Persija ) u kojoj je Zoroastrizam tada bio na vrhuncu moci. Tako da geografski gledano to ima smisla, kilometraza nije velika.
I believe the difference is that the Oriental Orthodox split with the Church over the fourth council (or maybe the third), something about the nature of Christ, and his they disagreed with that councils formulation. I believe the largest groups are the Copts and Armenians. I don't know if the Assyrians belong as well, as I'm pretty sure they're Nestorian, and thus split earlier.
the oriental are copts they are monophysites, so therefore they are heretics. if christ was only God and not human as they said then the salvation is impossible and meaningless and the death on the cross is just a sad show .
Calling Mary "Mrs. Father" disobeys what Jesus said in Matthew 23:8-10. Father is against it because she is not Father God, and Mrs., from Mistress, is the feminine form of Master. I struggle with not calling my dad by the title, since he really wants me to, so I won't condemn you for it, but make sure to obey Jesus. He had many more commands than I believe many know. Matthew 7:21-27.
I have started to watch the hours from various monasteries and it seems like the prayers are so rushed and read in a robotic fashion. I think the principle is to read without passion but why read like a robot. When did this start? I am not trying to be critical and genuinely want to understand. I just cant read my prayers in a robotic tone.
Wait, so Orthodox believe that people will spend some time in Hell upon their death and before judgement day? What about Saints, are they those who were holy enough that they entered heaven directly rather than spending some time in Hell?
Not hell (eternal punishment) but Hades (temporal state of souls before Dread Judgement where each soul feels the foretaste of upcoming blessedness or torment). So, in short, everyone is in Hades, saints and damned alike.
@@BibleIllustrated hey Bojan! God bless you! Im sorry but i dont really understand, so emperor Trojan was saved from Hades but not eternal hell? Im sorry if im boring, could you clear it up for me a bit? Im sorry for the inconveniance i know rhst this is a hard question
@@martinniceski4032 The terminology is a bit muddled, but, in short, he was saved from Hades (in this context, a place of torment before the resurrection) and by extension, hell (torment after resurrection)
@@BibleIllustrated I would accept evolution even as a Christian -- if there was evidence for macroevolution. It's easy to just say everything evolved but it is just a story until we see something somewhere actually gain a limb or sprout an eye spot, or mutate a spinal cord or grow wings. But for every major organ that evolved from the first simplfied cell to humans, we are just told that everything evolved but never given any detailed set of changes from like a land animal to a whale or a fish to a land animal. LIke what mutations could have caused a fish to evolve a set of lungs!? Why not put evolution to a hard test by using a mathematical algorithm programmed with all the facts and the time it takes for random mutations to become fixed in a population, and then let the computer tell us how plausible these major transformations are. Where is the math in evolution? It's like they just won't go there. No details or hard questions - only large assumptions and generalities taught as absolute facts. It's a joke calling it science I studied a bachelor of Biological science and researched this. You seem to be a blind follower of this great propaganda. I'll still support you and watch your videos but don't believe the nonsense of evolution. God bless ♥️
Why was tsar Nicolas canonized? I’m not sure how neglecting your people to constant famines, low literacy rate, practice of serfdom, the millions sent to their deaths for a pointless war, and the Bloody Sunday massacre makes you a saint, but everyone I ask online just keeps bringing up Jewish conspiracies. Edit: serfdom had already been abolished before Nicolas even came to power, however the work conditions were still terrible (at least for factory workers) as well as the lowest paid workers in all of Europe. Edit(looking back years later this was a very stupid question)
Only Facts Most of the things you hear (differentiated from *read*) about Tsar Nicholas II is Bolshevik propaganda or simply bad history. If you pick up any book on him from a solid and trusted historian, you'll see the history behind him and Russia as a whole is far far far more complex. Take for instance the day of his coronation, Bolshevik propaganda said that the Tsar was untouched by the death toll and went to a ball later that night anyway. This is half the story and purposefully warped, as the Tsar wanted to call off the ball but his advisors pleaded with him to continue as many foreign dignitaries needed to see him as the new Tsar and couldn't wait. Likewise, much of Tsar Nicholas II's history has been warped by people with agendas over the course of the Soviet Union, which did everything it possibly could to delegitimize the Tsardom and prevent people from wishing a return to the old days. Ironic, considering many Russians today refer to the last decades of the Russian empire as the "lost promise," as it was the single greatest period of Russian strength and culture. As for the Church, we canonized him and his family as saints because of the way they lived in times of extreme duress and the martyrdom they died, which martyrdom automatically makes someone a saint.
I am surely no expert on this, and I recommend that you talk to an Orthodox priest scholar who knows better than I; I'd like to share what I know about the subject. While St. Nicolas II surely had great flaws like many other great rulers of history, the mistakes that he made and the hardships that occurred under his reign have been overblown by modern ahistorical rumors and legends. For example: the serf system had been abolished by tsar Alexander II long before Nicolas II came along. Tsar Nicolas II was a great man, but a troubled leader; having to deal with widespread political insurrection and economic problems that had been around well before Nicolas II had come to power. He himself was a very pious man, and died a "passion-like" death, along with his wife and many children; as they were brutally shot and stabbed to death by their atheist Bolshevik captors; which (among many other reasons) is why he was canonized as a saint, along with his wife and many children. BTW, If you want to learn more about St. Nicolas II and his supposed relation to the bloody Sunday massacre, I recommend you read this article: orthochristian.com/47622.html
The Jewish conspiracy stuff is mostly something believed by online anti-Semitic fanatics looking to blame Jews for the massacres that occurred under the soviet state. Luckily this is a (very vocal) but minority view among orthodox circles, and is rejected by the church and it's leaders.
Randy Dandy it is not a coincidence though a majority of pre-Stalin Soviet leadership was Jewish, and the orchestrator of the Holodomor (11 million Ukrainians killed) was Genrikh Yagoda, also a jew.
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How can we explain to americans that Orthodox are not monsters for not supporting gay marriage laws?
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A lot of Americans such as myself don't support those laws.
The way i was taught was, love the sinner, hate the sin.
Hi, I'm American. I think same-sex civil partnerships are fine, but not same-sex marriage in a Christian Church. I don't think same sex unions are valid in the eyes of God, but I won't deny them the state benefits.
I do wonder why so many Christians are stuck on gay people and not other sins. Divorce is also strictly forbidden, yet divorced people are welcomed in church all the time. Jesus spoke quite clearly about all kinds of sins, so are gay people singled out?
@@johnmartin3134 Drunkenness and heterosexual lust are also serious sins, but you don't see parents throwing out their teenage sons on the street for partying and looking at porn.
@@meredithwilliams4671 you literally kind of proved my point, parent may not like that their children sin, but they still love them
There is a slight possibility that the fancy Pencils & Prayer Ropes episodes will be delayed (not too much, tho). Good news: I got a blessing to use a translation of the _Sayings of the Desert Fathers,_ so expect the illustrated versions of the sayings soon. :-)
Upcoming clips: Psalm 83, I guess.
Foarte bine! Sunt foarte placut cu canalul dvs. I don't know if you speak Romanian, being from Serbia, and so close to Romania. Of all of its neighbors, the Romanians, who are also Orthodox, historically got along best with the Serbians. I'm not Romanian, but I speak the language. Thanks for providing this valuable educational channel about Eastern Orthodoxy, and keep up the good work!
I am a Romanian Ortodox
PURPLE the imperial color nice !!
So pretty...
Thank you for your wonderfully humorous lessons.
As a convert in 2006 whose Priest, at St George of Troy, did not have us sixteen converts, from Zion Lutheran in Detroit, go through months of extensive Catechumen study nor be re baptized, Lutheran's do not immerse but do baptize in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit, but told us to continually come to Divine Liturgy to learn the One True Faith.
May God grant you many years
Glory to Jess Christ!
Yes, generally, a rebaptism is to be avoided if done in the name of Trinity; I myself wasn't immersed, just sprinkled on (a very common practice in the Serbian Church at the time).
Glad you liked the videos, I will be making a new Q&A in a couple of weeks. :-)
Zion Lutheran (LCMS) in Detroit is a very good conservative pious Church.
I love your videos, sir. God bless!
Thank you so much! :-)
Brother in Christ,
I appreciate your videos yet again, here is my thoughts. I’ve experienced priests who engaged in alcoholism and was intimidated and chastised and hurt by other priests who did not believe me, when yet, it was true. Then I talk to a prominent figure in orthodoxy, and with all flippancy and disrespect they hate and bring wrath upon a needy man. I speak Truth, and ally myself to Christ. I will not give up my faith, but people can be damned sure, I am no respecter of persons.
In your kindness brother
"Adam fell in paradise and Lot found salvation in Sodom". Love this quote.
I'm finally featured on a RUclips video yay :D (on this alternate account...but still) can't wait for more!
Step by step to fame :-D
Thank you!
Just as children are baptized into the Church and are easy to instruct because of their young minds, humility, and lack of stubbornness that you find in adults, the Church likewise does the same reasoning with monks, as we don't take in people above 30 (except in highly rare occasions) as monks. The reason being that the older you get, the more stubborn and set in your ways you are, and those ways are chiefly the world's ways and the world's wisdom, not the Church's ways and Christ's wisdom. This is why new monastics are almost always young people from 12 to 30 as they are still able to be molded as holy people.
Good answer! Can you perhaps repost it as a reply to Jubair Khan on Video Games Addiction video? :-) Wanna make sure he sees it.
anathema to everyone who says "irregardless". - REGARDLESS!
Irregardlessly
@@BibleIllustrated axios
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Why don't more people know about you? I always recommend your videos to my friends.
Will answer :-)
Also - thank you! ❤
This video earns a like ♡
And you earn one too! ❤
Non-Orthodox here. Although I respect the faith and its followers, there are some *critical* issues I have with it:
1. The Trinity
2. Icons (something which I view as openly idolatrous)
3. The fact that nationalist organizations have successfully infiltrated the Orthodox church (especially within Russia and Serbia)
You should do a video on how the Catholic church went after jews and how orthodox christians helped jews.
Concerning fasting, it also depends on jurisdiction. Like in my Antiochian Church, there is no fasting between Pascha and Ascension. Even more simple....
Oh yes, there is some variance :-)
This is great.
Aww, thanks!
Q&A: what do you think of the Moscow is third Rome belief?
Will answer :-)
Will you ever do a video about you so we can learn more about you?
Will answer :-)
Thank you, I will have to talk with my priest. :) And the joke was Cringe Worthy and Funny XD JK
I'm especially proud of my cringe jokes (there's one more in the exorcism video) :D
Fasting does not mean that we don't eat food. It means no meat Dairy eggs you basically eat a vegan diet make some pasta e fagioli with a nice broth and fresh vegetables carrots celery and onions fresh garlic cook in the Crock-Pot or on the stove and then add your little any small pasta and it's not really a soup it should have a little broth in the bottom but it's more about the beans and pasta. Any beans that you like will work including lima beans but I do not use black beans because they're not and they never were popular in Tuscany where this recipe comes from. :-)
What do the two olive trees mentioned in the bible refer to? I heard one video explain them as groups of people (the Jews and the Gentiles)
Names a troll. Thank you
I assumed as much! :-)
Is Mary part of the Trinity? That cant be serious. It must have been a troll. I shouldn't do it but sometimes I troll catholic answers protestant gibberish.
Yes it was a friendly troll, my reply is a troll too
I'm a bit confused (please don't answer this question in the next Q&A) about how the Nativity Fast begins on the 15th and ends on the 25th and Christmas is celebrated on January 7th. Much love from an 8-year-old Oriental (Syriac) Orthodox Christian.
Thanks a lot for answering my question and yes you did mispronounce my name but not that much, I got used to it. Tbh I have another question. What is your opinion on old and new calendars and which do you use?
Will answer! :-) Again, sorry for the name, will try to repronounce it in the next clip. :-D
Ffs it was a joke
I know :-P
Does the Catholic Church teach the same thing about praying for the dead? I have always remembered learning and talking about how once a soul passes on, it is either in heaven (purgatory) or hell and no prayer can help those in the latter.
No, in Orthodoxy we pray for all departed people. Also, we do not have a concept of purgatory - that is RC invention.
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Duck Gaming 5000 The Catholics often use Douay-Rheims translation from the Vulgate, the Orthodox don't have an official English translation but tend to prefer the KJV (I am biased I love older English)
Will answer. :-)
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Bible Illustrated And by the way Boyan, I'm a Filipino and I was born in the Philippines so yeah 😅
We have another Filipino here, Regina Garcia, he posts often :-)
What is your opinion on Corneliu Zelea Codreanu? Also modernity trying to creep it’s way into the church like RCC and Greek Orthodox?Thank you
Post the question in Q&A 4, otherwise I'll miss it :-)
@@BibleIllustrated Bojan no! It's a message from the future, don't entertain a question from someone who is obviously a Fascist!
So when we die, we won't go to Heaven (or Hell) right away? We have to wait for it to happen? I'm a little confused.
We experience a foretaste of heaven and hell, but we experience them fully only after the Last Judgement. :-)
Could you explain the Orthodox understanding of salvation? I think I have an understanding of it but I would just to here it coming from you lol!
Lol Will do! :-)
What are your opinions on the old rite believer's
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Какво је твоје мишљење о Зороастризму ? Да ли су она три мудраца која су дошла на поклозење Христу били припадници Зороастријанства? Ја лично проналазим масу сличности између Православља и Зороастријанства.
E odogovoriću, oduševilo me pitanje :-)
E pa lepo... Istocno od Izraela nalazi se Iran ( Persija ) u kojoj je Zoroastrizam tada bio na vrhuncu moci. Tako da geografski gledano to ima smisla, kilometraza nije velika.
What is the different between Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Church
I believe the difference is that the Oriental Orthodox split with the Church over the fourth council (or maybe the third), something about the nature of Christ, and his they disagreed with that councils formulation. I believe the largest groups are the Copts and Armenians. I don't know if the Assyrians belong as well, as I'm pretty sure they're Nestorian, and thus split earlier.
There's probably other differences in practice as well, and I'd be interested in seeing Bojan talk about it.
the oriental are copts they are monophysites, so therefore they are heretics. if christ was only God and not human as they said then the salvation is impossible and meaningless and the death on the cross is just a sad show .
Calling Mary "Mrs. Father" disobeys what Jesus said in Matthew 23:8-10. Father is against it because she is not Father God, and Mrs., from Mistress, is the feminine form of Master. I struggle with not calling my dad by the title, since he really wants me to, so I won't condemn you for it, but make sure to obey Jesus. He had many more commands than I believe many know. Matthew 7:21-27.
Um you know he was joking right?
I have started to watch the hours from various monasteries and it seems like the prayers are so rushed and read in a robotic fashion. I think the principle is to read without passion but why read like a robot. When did this start? I am not trying to be critical and genuinely want to understand. I just cant read my prayers in a robotic tone.
Wait, so Orthodox believe that people will spend some time in Hell upon their death and before judgement day? What about Saints, are they those who were holy enough that they entered heaven directly rather than spending some time in Hell?
Not hell (eternal punishment) but Hades (temporal state of souls before Dread Judgement where each soul feels the foretaste of upcoming blessedness or torment). So, in short, everyone is in Hades, saints and damned alike.
@@BibleIllustrated hey Bojan! God bless you! Im sorry but i dont really understand, so emperor Trojan was saved from Hades but not eternal hell? Im sorry if im boring, could you clear it up for me a bit? Im sorry for the inconveniance i know rhst this is a hard question
@@martinniceski4032 The terminology is a bit muddled, but, in short, he was saved from Hades (in this context, a place of torment before the resurrection) and by extension, hell (torment after resurrection)
Do you believe in evolution?
#canofworms :D Will answer :-)
@@BibleIllustrated I would accept evolution even as a Christian -- if there was evidence for macroevolution. It's easy to just say everything evolved but it is just a story until we see something somewhere actually gain a limb or sprout an eye spot, or mutate a spinal cord or grow wings. But for every major organ that evolved from the first simplfied cell to humans, we are just told that everything evolved but never given any detailed set of changes from like a land animal to a whale or a fish to a land animal. LIke what mutations could have caused a fish to evolve a set of lungs!? Why not put evolution to a hard test by using a mathematical algorithm programmed with all the facts and the time it takes for random mutations to become fixed in a population, and then let the computer tell us how plausible these major transformations are. Where is the math in evolution? It's like they just won't go there. No details or hard questions - only large assumptions and generalities taught as absolute facts. It's a joke calling it science
I studied a bachelor of Biological science and researched this. You seem to be a blind follower of this great propaganda.
I'll still support you and watch your videos but don't believe the nonsense of evolution.
God bless ♥️
I have a question do Orthodox at least believed that the Theotokos went into heaven with body and soul? Just curious
I'll answer. :-)
purpel XD
Why was tsar Nicolas canonized? I’m not sure how neglecting your people to constant famines, low literacy rate, practice of serfdom, the millions sent to their deaths for a pointless war, and the Bloody Sunday massacre makes you a saint, but everyone I ask online just keeps bringing up Jewish conspiracies.
Edit: serfdom had already been abolished before Nicolas even came to power, however the work conditions were still terrible (at least for factory workers) as well as the lowest paid workers in all of Europe.
Edit(looking back years later this was a very stupid question)
Only Facts Most of the things you hear (differentiated from *read*) about Tsar Nicholas II is Bolshevik propaganda or simply bad history. If you pick up any book on him from a solid and trusted historian, you'll see the history behind him and Russia as a whole is far far far more complex. Take for instance the day of his coronation, Bolshevik propaganda said that the Tsar was untouched by the death toll and went to a ball later that night anyway. This is half the story and purposefully warped, as the Tsar wanted to call off the ball but his advisors pleaded with him to continue as many foreign dignitaries needed to see him as the new Tsar and couldn't wait. Likewise, much of Tsar Nicholas II's history has been warped by people with agendas over the course of the Soviet Union, which did everything it possibly could to delegitimize the Tsardom and prevent people from wishing a return to the old days. Ironic, considering many Russians today refer to the last decades of the Russian empire as the "lost promise," as it was the single greatest period of Russian strength and culture.
As for the Church, we canonized him and his family as saints because of the way they lived in times of extreme duress and the martyrdom they died, which martyrdom automatically makes someone a saint.
I am surely no expert on this, and I recommend that you talk to an Orthodox priest scholar who knows better than I; I'd like to share what I know about the subject. While St. Nicolas II surely had great flaws like many other great rulers of history, the mistakes that he made and the hardships that occurred under his reign have been overblown by modern ahistorical rumors and legends. For example: the serf system had been abolished by tsar Alexander II long before Nicolas II came along. Tsar Nicolas II was a great man, but a troubled leader; having to deal with widespread political insurrection and economic problems that had been around well before Nicolas II had come to power. He himself was a very pious man, and died a "passion-like" death, along with his wife and many children; as they were brutally shot and stabbed to death by their atheist Bolshevik captors; which (among many other reasons) is why he was canonized as a saint, along with his wife and many children.
BTW, If you want to learn more about St. Nicolas II and his supposed relation to the bloody Sunday massacre, I recommend you read this article: orthochristian.com/47622.html
The Jewish conspiracy stuff is mostly something believed by online anti-Semitic fanatics looking to blame Jews for the massacres that occurred under the soviet state. Luckily this is a (very vocal) but minority view among orthodox circles, and is rejected by the church and it's leaders.
He is a saint because of the way he died, not necessarily because of the way he lived. Same goes for St. Constantine.
Randy Dandy it is not a coincidence though a majority of pre-Stalin Soviet leadership was Jewish, and the orchestrator of the Holodomor (11 million Ukrainians killed) was Genrikh Yagoda, also a jew.