In the post-war period, the Russian Orthodox Church collaborated with the Soviet State in a campaign to eliminate Eastern Rite Catholicism in the newly annexed regions of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.Rev. Christopher Zugger, Finding a Hidden Church, Eastern Christian Publications, 2009. Priests and laity who refused to convert to Orthodoxy were either assassinated or deported to the GULAGs in Karaganda.Finding a Hidden Church, pages 33–212. On 27 October 1947, the NKVD staged a car accident in order to assassinate the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Bishop Theodore Romzha of Mukachevo.Finding a Hidden Church, pages 78–82. When the "accident" failed to kill the Bishop, the NKVD poisoned him in his hospital bed on 1 November 1947.Finding a Hidden Church, page 82-86.
In the post-war period, the Russian Orthodox Church collaborat,ed with the Soviet State in a campaign to eliminate Eastern Rite Catholicism in the newly annexed regions of the Uk,rainian Soviet Socialist Republic.Rev. Christopher Zugger Finding a Hidden Church, Eastern Christian Publications, 2009. Priests and laity who refused to convert to Orthodoxy were either assassinated or deported to the GULAGs in Karaganda.Finding a Hidden Church, pages 33–212. On 27 October 1947, the NKVD staged a car accident in order to assassinate the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Bishop Theodore Romzha of Mukachevo.Finding a Hidden Church pages 78–82. When the "accident" failed to kill the Bishop the NKVD poisoned him in his hospital bed on 1 November 1947.Finding a Hidden Church, page 82-86.