Nostalgia is all they have. Putinist Russia has no hope and no future.
Cue up “Midnight in Moscow” on the turntable...
I feel the opposite. I feel that countries who embrace Christ have hope. While those who feel they no longer have need for Christ and embrace cultures antithetical to Christ, have no hope. Putin went from Saul to Paul. A former KGB agent who became a leader who incorporated Christian religious education in Russian schools and promoter of Christianity in Russia and defender of Christians aboard (especially in Syria).
Vladimir Putin, Christian Crusader?
This writer was startled to read in the Jan-Feb. newsletter from the social conservative World Council of Families in Rockford, Ill., that, of the “ten best trends” in the world in 2013, number one was “Russia Emerges as Pro-Family Leader.” In 2013, the Kremlin imposed a ban on homosexual propaganda, a ban on abortion advertising, a ban on abortions after 12 weeks and a ban on sacrilegious insults to religious believers.
There is only hope in Christ. Those countries who embrace Christ have hope. Those countries which don't, don't.