You'll love this insanity.
Actually, I wouldn't know where to begin on this thread. I'd be here all day.
It is certainly amusing to see defenders of Uniatism complain about the use of the power of the state to promote one church and suppress another. The entire existence of the Ukrainian Catholic church is due to such techniques.
The main difference is that in the case of the Soviets it was an avowedly Godless and atheist internationalist organization suppressing an international religious organization that it saw as a political threat.
In the case of Uniatism, the violence, trickery and suppression of Orthodoxy was done in the name of Christ. There's plenty of blame to go around and plenty of stones to be thrown in every direction when it comes to the clash of Orthodoxy and the Roman church in Eastern Europe. None of it leads one to believe that we should be anxious to throw ourselves into the arms of reunion.
Personally, I'm very enthusiastic about the new Pope Benedict, as a review of my posts would show. The reason that I am optimistic is that I think that during his days as Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Benedict showed that he had great perceptive insight into the rot in the modern Roman church -- liturgical, theological, moral... I have long been a fan of his writing, even though I of course don't agree with all of it. He is the most traditionally patristic-minded hierarch I have encountered in the Roman church. On another thread in the last couple of days, an excited Catholic made the very good point that while JPII's writings mostly cited his own earlier writings and the documents of Vat II, Benedict actually cites Scripture and the Fathers...
Unless I miss my guess, he'll be so busy trying to clean up his own back-yard that he will leave us alone for awhile. JPII's persistence in trying to get into Russia was a classic case of fiddling while Rome burned...