Posted on 04/20/2024 5:11:17 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Read Edvard Radzinsky’s bio of Stalin:
Wonder of wonders this is posted online at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/stalin.htm
Wherein this paragraph can be found::
“The part of the town in which Beso’s house stood was known as the Russian quarter, because Russian soldiers were stationed in a barracks nearby. So other children often called Soso “the Russian.” This wouldlodge in his subconscious, with strange results. He would never feel the stirring of Georgian nationalist sentiment. Only his first revolutionary pseudonym—almost a childish nickname—had any connection with Georgia. As a professional revolutionary, he used only Russian names when living underground. He would later describe his homeland sarcastically as “that small area of Russia which calls itself Georgia.”
Now I've got my payment for the service that I gave.
They've given me my ticket to this place beyond the grave.
I suppose it's kind of funny, I suppose it's kind of sad;
Thinking back on all the times we had.
But it's kind of hot and smoky in this ante-room to Hell,
And I won't make up a story 'cause you know the truth so well.
It's much too late to worry that we never had a chance,
And, when Joe the Georgian gets here, we will dance, dance dance ...
And when Joe the Georgian gets here, we will dance.
We all set off together on this sorry ship of state.
When the Captain took the fever, we were hijacked by the Mate;
And he steered us through the shadows upon an angry tide,
And cast us, one by one, over the side.
But it's kind of hot and smoky in this ante-room to Hell,
And I won't make up a story 'cause you know the truth so well.
It's much too late to worry that we never had a chance,
And, when Joe the Georgian gets here, we will dance, dance dance ...
And when Joe the Georgian gets here, we will dance.
There's Kamenev, Zinoviev, Bukharin and the rest;
We're sharpening our pitchforks and we're heating up the ends.
We've got a few surprises for the Mate when he appears;
I hope he likes the next few million years.
But it's kind of hot and smoky in this ante-room to Hell,
And I won't make up a story 'cause you know the truth so well.
It's much too late to worry that we never had a chance,
And, when Joe the Georgian gets here, we will dance, dance dance ...
And when Joe the Georgian gets here, we will dance.
5. The National Church is determined to exterminate irrevoca- bly . . . the strange and foreign Christian faiths imported into Germany in the ill-omened year 800.
Inspiring the Yarovaya law?
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That spectrum should be the Standard.
When the KGB tried to do it, they worked through the Bulgarians to get a Turkish citizen to take the shot.
I’ll start being concerned when five point Calvinists somewhat disagree.
Related:
The commission Congregatio de Auxiliis, to settle a theological controversy regarding divine grace that had arisen between the Dominicans and the Jesuits towards the close of the sixteenth century.
The principal question, giving its name to the whole dispute, concerned the help (auxilia) afforded by grace; the crucial point was the reconciliation of the efficacy of grace with human freedom. Catholic theology holds on the one hand that the efficacious grace given for the performance of an action obtains, infallibly, man's consent and that action takes place; on the other hand that in so acting, man is free. Hence the question: How can these two -the infallible result and liberty- be harmonized?...
Finally, after twenty years of discussion public and private, and eighty-five conferences in the presence of the popes, the question was not solved but an end was put to the disputes. The pope's decree communicated on 5 September 1607 to both Dominicans and Jesuits, allowed each party to defend its own doctrine, enjoined each from censoring or condemning the opposite opinion, and commanded them to await, as loyal sons of the Church, the final decision of the Apostolic See. That decision, however, has not been reached, and both orders, consequently, could maintain their respective theories, just as any other theological opinion is held. The long controversy has aroused considerable feeling, and the pope, aiming at the restoration of peace and charity between the religious orders, forbade by a decree of the Inquisition (1 December 1611) the publication of any book concerning efficacious grace until further action by the Holy See. The prohibition remained in force during the greater part of the seventeenth century, although it was widely circumvented by the means of explicit commentaries of Thomas Aquinas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregatio_de_Auxiliis
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