Russia This Week: Ultranationalist Politician Urges Men to Rape Women Reporters on Good Friday

The Interpreter Mag ^ | 18 Apr 14 | Catherine A. Fitzpatrick

[elhombrelibre]

Reid is a crafty and successful American pol who is a self-serving, self-enriching opportunistic ideologue with no redeeming value to society.

Zhirinovsky, on the other hand, and in my opinion, is more an example of the successful Russian demagogue who has hijacked any possibility of Russia becoming a Democratic and self-governing nation. And despite all the pro-Russian claptrap about religion, Zhirinovsky, like Putin, want the Christian religion only as an ideological gel to hold the neo-Russian empire together and to provide some rationale for their chauvinism. This isn't the religion of Jesus of Nazareth. It's the Christianity of the Ku Klux Klan. It's not the Christianity that sees homosexual acts as a grave sin; it's the religion that thinks the Westboro Baptist Church is onto something and that a theocratic link between church and Putin's party is necessary to stop sodomy.

[RichInOC]

It’s hard to say what’s the best part of this exchange. Incitement to rape? Easter blasphemy? I think I have to go with

“You shouldn’t be rude to me. We’re press.”

[depressed in 06]

He is Vice Chairman of the Duma.

Here, I think, we have a man worthy of Sloe Joe.

If Helen Thomas were still alive, could we keep her from rushing to Russia?

[sitetest]

Dear elhombrelibre,

I'm sorry, but it looks like a distinction with little difference.

Reid, too, is an ideologue, looking to create a communofascist empire run, controlled, and benefiting he and his heirs, claims the mantle of Christianity, under which is actually the atheistic (ultimately) doctrine of Mormonism, and who saves his own Westboro Baptist act not for homosexuals but for those who resist the homosexualization of American society.

Zhirinovsky appears to be a crafty, successful Russian pol who, while being a demagogue looking to resurrect the Russian empire, is also self-serving, and likely self-enriching opportunist, and also appears to have no redeeming value to society.

It is the optimists who run down our own politics while looking to Putin and his ilk for some sort of guidance, leadership, or moral authority. It is the delusionists who think our own politicians are even a gram better.

The folks who look at things clearly and without sentiment understand that both nations are under Satan's supervision, through their respective anti-Christs, Obama, Putin, and each of their associated minions.

sitetest

[wetphoenix]

Kind of. Here is a compilation about this guy to understand who he is:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3WnRILlQO_Y

[Terry L Smith]

Mr. Zhirinovsky is an old-school Russian, period.
MEN make policies, women make cookies and babies, period.

Yes, of course, women are in the military, nowadays, by choice, then, by choice of the State.

The man has been in his elected seat for over 20 years. Let’s do the math, shall we?

The Fall of The Berlin Wall was about , er, 1988.
1988 plus 20 comes to 2008. (1918 plus 20 comes to 1938, go figure.)

This man has been on the political scene to see what has happened to his country, pre- and post-Soviet ideology.

To call what this man holds, as “lowbrow chauvinism”, shows what vacuous mind the original author has, when it comes to understanding Russian post-Soviet politics, and the mind of the Russians, as a whole.

In America, ‘ultranationalist’ might be used to describe ANYBODY who knows what America really was, before the queer-in-costume-charge Obama was immaculated/inaugurated, and wants that back, LIKE ME!!!

[elhombrelibre]

The year you were looking for was 1989.

I understand and agree that you're no doubt akin to Zhirinovsky's worldview.

Happy Easter and all God's Blessings on you.

[Terry L Smith]

elhombrelibre wrote:
“The year you were looking for was 1989.

I understand and agree that you’re no doubt akin to Zhirinovsky’s worldview.

Happy Easter and all God’s Blessings on you.”

—
Thank you for the correction of the year. Keeping all my journals on the other side of the room can become frustrating, when attempting to write at what used to be ‘paid-for-speed’, in retirement years.

I have dealt with many “old-school” Russians, both during and after The (original) Cold War, so, yes, once you get in their mindset, some of it gets harbored as both funny, and nasty.

I gladly, and thankfully, accept all blessings and well wishings that come my way, with the wish that they be returned to the sender, tenfold.