Posted on 08/22/2016 4:01:05 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Why Russia’s Evangelicals Thank God for Putin
Mark R. Elliott [ 1/7/2015 9:25:00 AM ]
...Putin is genuinely popular—and admired—by Russians across the spectrum: among believers as well as the religiously indifferent, among Protestants as well as Orthodox, and among academics as well as taxi drivers.
These poor deluded Christians need help in understanding that true Christianity needs to be subordinate to the globalist and neocon expectations or it/they/Russia will be vilified and effectively rooted out.
LOL. Russian Evangelicals thank God Putin denies them their ability to practice their religion? You are one deluded and boot licking Putinist.
So you didn’t read the article. Alas, I’m sure you swallow, feathers and all, the facile Russophobia of Anne Applebaum, Masha Gessen, and every other non-Christian hater of white Christan culture and countries.
The U. S. S. R. did not come to an end due to a coup.
It economically collapsed.
It’s leaders allowed the iron curtain to fall, and nations who wanted to return to their own sovereign existence, did so.
Our little cadre of leftist here in America are working overtime to bring all that wonderful stuff to us! AKA the DNC and the establishment from academia to the media, all comrades in arms!
“...I miss those lines for food and toilet paper...”
Lines for food yes but not for toilet paper. There was no toilet paper in the 1960s - 1980s.
Soviets used junk paper, old party congress reports etc. Even important Communist Party officials did not have toilet paper. It may have been available at GUM in Moscow and Moscow’s hotels but it did not exist for engineers, surgeons, scientists, and people who would be upper middle class in this country.
No $h!t??
Exactly. “Find a connection” became a game everyone in the nation played, from housewives to high officers, along with “get the truth past the censors”. Russians became extremely good at reading between the lines in a glowing newspaper report of the local bigwigs that actually said they were a bunch of bumbling idiots who couldn’t do anything right. Anyone who wanted scarce goods learned where was more likely to get shipments first, who to suck up to or bribe and when to show up; entire trucks’ worth of cargo often vanished before it hit the shelves.
The Soviets also managed to construct a fierce sense of nationality, at least in the Russian core. Almost all of the many mistakes and shortcomings were hidden in chest-pounding pride that the average citizen could get behind or at least pretend to.
Now that’s gone. All of it. The entire world knows that Stalin was a murdering monster, Soviet consumer goods and clothes couldn’t even match an American dollar store for quality and that things were even worse in satellite nations. The gulags and death squads are an open book for anyone with an Internet connection, few nations fear the Bear and certainly not enough to self-censor embarrassing truths about him. At this point misplaced nostalgia is pretty much all that wretched nation has GOT.
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