Posted on 07/07/2011 6:20:26 AM PDT by marktwain
I love that guy. He gets to have all the fun.
>> Wouldn’t that impugn that whole communism thingy?
Russia is no longer officially communist. They are a “crony capitalist” oligarchy, ruled by ex-KGB elites. They are not democratic in the American sense, but they do not force marxist ideology on their populations like they did in the USSR.
>> but the hopelessness over there is a testament to decades
>>(and probably centuries) without Christ.
Centuries? Prior to the 1917 revolution Orthodox Christianity was a powerful cultural force in Russia. Or that doesn’t count?
What I have said, I have said.
"What I have said, I have said."Ok. But your assertions have little to do with reality.
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