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Russia's new culture policy a weapon against West
AFP ^ | April 18th, 2014 | Maria Antonova

Posted on 04/18/2014 1:33:04 PM PDT by Mariner

Moscow (AFP) - The Kremlin is preparing a new culture policy for Russia focusing on its distinctive civilisation and traditional values, which observers say has political ends amid Moscow's standoff with the West.

At the end of four hours of questions Thursday in his annual call-in, President Vladimir Putin waxed philosophical on what it means to be Russian.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: culture; homosexualagenda; orthodox; putin; russia; usa
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To: SevenofNine

Rock music is destructive of any society. Compared to classical and swing it is garbage; however, rap is not music and is akin to the sound manure would make if it was tortured.


21 posted on 04/18/2014 2:27:41 PM PDT by Stepan12
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To: Norm Lenhart
Barry has his fans too. Just check all the Russia threads.

Let's follow that logic: If you oppose Putin, you support Obama. Oops, no logic to be found.

22 posted on 04/18/2014 2:27:51 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Mariner

It’s easy to say what you aren’t.
It’s harder to say what you are.

My friend and I were looking through a very old copy of the boy scout manual yesterday.

A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent.

How many kids ever get taught even what these virtues are in public school.
The media values are upside down, everything good is bad, everything bad is good.

Oh yeah and tea party people are vicious racists for wanting smaller government.


23 posted on 04/18/2014 2:30:50 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Mariner
" Russia 'is forced to culturally protect itself' from...the depravities of Europe's contemporary culture.

"Perhaps Russia will be the last keeper of European culture, Christian values and truly European civilisation."

"Russia is not Europe DECADENT."

24 posted on 04/18/2014 2:30:55 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Let me follow yours.

“Vlad is Hitler because I say so”

Nope no logic to be found. Or...

“Vlad did this all by himself even though many posters have shown me otherwise so it’s ALL his doing”

Nope. Sans logic. How about...

“I like posting nonsense to get attention”.

Now there is some logic. Twisted, but then so is your whole view on this subject.


25 posted on 04/18/2014 2:34:46 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: DTA
America conquered Nazism and Communism with better music. Swing and Rock did it. Today, American music can be used only for torture of captured terrorists. Ruskies learned the lesson well.

Russians have good popular music? I thought the young people were abandoning them because they have little soft power of any kind.
26 posted on 04/18/2014 2:37:48 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Norm Lenhart

More: “I support Putin, therefore I support Ahmadinejad, Castro . . . .” Nope, still no logic to be seen.


27 posted on 04/18/2014 2:38:03 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Mariner
Crimea in iambic pentameter,

The Charge of the Light Brigade: Tennyson, since the British are not European either.

28 posted on 04/18/2014 2:38:15 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: 1rudeboy

It’s the myopia and emotionalism I explained to you on the other thread. Blinds you to reality. And the fact your supporter there couldn’t even figure out we were being sarcastic pretty much proves the myopia part is contagious.


29 posted on 04/18/2014 2:40:28 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: GeronL
"It’s actual legal in Russia"

You'll have to cite a reference for that or nobody will believe it or you.

30 posted on 04/18/2014 2:42:39 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: nascarnation
Who would have thought 30 yrs ago that most patriots would feel more affinity for the head of Russia vs POTUS Baraq?

Some 42 years a young Jane Fonda like our nation's enemies better than the POTUS.


31 posted on 04/18/2014 2:43:16 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Norm Lenhart

I posted a piece by the director of the Heritage Foundation that was critical of Putin a while back. Your “logic” holds that it makes me an Obama supporter. What about Heritage? More myopic emotionalism?


32 posted on 04/18/2014 2:44:32 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Mariner
Russians not only have their own "cultural code," he said, they also have a unique moral outlook
33 posted on 04/18/2014 2:45:43 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Mariner

Morality as an individual yearning for purity and salvation = Christianity.

Morality as a uniform top down law and weapon of the state = Stalinism.

Damn right Russia is not part of Europe, it seems to yearn for the paradise which is North Korea.


34 posted on 04/18/2014 2:52:58 PM PDT by BurningOak (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2830849/reply?c=1)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Was that filmed in Golden Gate park?


35 posted on 04/18/2014 2:53:24 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: nascarnation

No patriot with half a brain supports Putin. Anything positive you can say about Putin can also be said of Kim Jong Un and Ahmadinejad.

Obama is a liberal nitwit that is bankrupting and embarrassing the country, but he is not even in the same league of evil as Putin. If Free Republic was in Russia it would either be shut down or be forced to adhere to party line.


36 posted on 04/18/2014 2:55:32 PM PDT by BurningOak (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2830849/reply?c=1)
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To: BurningOak
"Morality as a uniform top down law and weapon of the state = Stalinism."

Would you say the same thing of Cultural and Religious Conservatives in the US?

Russia is very unlikely to use morality as a weapon of the state. It's not needed when you have the GRU.

Besides how do you make morality a weapon?

37 posted on 04/18/2014 2:57:36 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: 1rudeboy

I don’t care what the Armchair quarterbacking of Heratige or you comes up with. You are being fed complete BS from -both- sides over there and choosing to believe one based on your personal dislike of the ‘dreamy shirtless bear rider’.

Then you infest the threads spouting things you know factually nothing about based on questionable at best info from media sources you yourself condemn when it suits your argument to do so - the MSM...while taking other questionable at best info as Gospel truth...and you think people like me are the idiots.

Got it.


38 posted on 04/18/2014 3:01:05 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Norm Lenhart
How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?

Like your tag line.

Lesser evil doesn't work.

No to all tyrants.

Obama, Putin...

39 posted on 04/18/2014 3:06:20 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Totally agree.


40 posted on 04/18/2014 3:07:07 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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