Russian President Vladimir Putin fired the assistant secretary of the Security Council Alexei Pavlov, who, in an article on a religious situation in Ukraine, called the Jewish movement “Khabad Lyubavich” and proposed to conduct the “Desyatanization” of Ukraine.
His article was published on October 25, 2022 in the newspaper Arguments and Facts under the heading “What is boiled in the” Witch Cauline “. In Ukraine, neopagial cults were gained.”
According to the author, the evidence of Satanism was that the Store “Witch Cool” in Kyiv “since the beginning of a special military operation for considerable money invites customers to make a” damage to Russian “ritual.
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Pavlov also mentioned the Lubavich Hasids. “The main life principle of the Lubavich Hasids is the superiority of supporters of the sect over all nations and peoples,” he wrote.
After the article was released, the Russian Jewish Congress appealed to the Investigative Committee and the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office with a request to check the article by Pavlov for hatred. In a letter from the Congress, the official of the official of the Lyubavich Hasids is called “unacceptable and dangerous.”
The main rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar said that the article contains a thesis that is difficult to perceive differently than the insult of millions of believers of the Jews. He pointed out that the Lyubavich Hasides and the religious movement “Habad” are not a “sect”, but the legitimate school of Judaism and the largest movement in the framework of Hasidism.
According to him, 90% of the rabbis working in the Jewish communities of Russia belong to the Khabada, he himself also belongs to the Lyubavich Hasids. As an illustration of his words, the chief rabbi of Russia cited as an example the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance in Moscow created by the Khabada community.
Three days after the release of the article by Pavlov, the secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev apologized for the statements of his assistant. He sent the corresponding letter to the edition of the publication. Patrushev said that Pavlov’s words about the Lubavich Hasides in the material about religion in Ukraine were erroneous.
Lieutenant General Pavlov, before coming to this position in 2009, worked in the FSB.