Posted on 09/10/2014 4:22:53 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
And in 1917, the Bolsheviks essentaially took power against Russian culture and the Russian people. That's why they had a civil war, y'know?
Maybe if you’d kept reading you wouuld have perceived that i
asn’t so different after all. Sterile sex, sterile culture.
I would guess that as your old friends die, you do get different ones.
Yeah, I heard the rumors . . . it’s Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. I just didn’t have the heart to tell you.
True.
She says: no vision of the future, no commitment to transmit their being to a next generation, no sense of transcendent meaning.
Sterility in every sense: physical, historical, spiritual.
What does that mean, Laz?
In 1986, when the Soviet Union belatedly announced a serious nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine after Western nations reported detecting unusually high radioactivity levels, it did so in one paragraph. The New York Times stated that[3]
The terse Soviet announcement of the Chernobyl accident was followed by a Tass dispatch noting that there had been many mishaps in the United States, ranging from Three Mile Island outside Harrisburg, Pa., to the Ginna plant near Rochester. Tass said an American antinuclear group registered 2,300 accidents, breakdowns and other faults in 1979.
The practice of focusing on disasters elsewhere when one occurs in the Soviet Union is so common that after watching a report on Soviet television about a catastrophe abroad, Russians often call Western friends to find out whether something has happened in the Soviet Union.
"When there is no vision, the people perish."
Seriously? Okay, for the very literally minded, they've been our enemies for 97 years.
The part you really missed, is that the Bolsheviks made war on Russian culture for 70 years.
The Russian people have been screwed by Marxist leaders for a century. The Russian folks themselves don’t hate us; they may be envious.
No, the part you missed is that the russian military - populated by russian people - went where their leaders pointed them. Regardless of what the individual's feelings may have been towards the U.S. they did what their bolshevik leaders told them to do. I'm all busted up about the russian culture bit too.
“The practice of focusing on disasters elsewhere when one occurs in the Soviet Union is so common that after watching a report on Soviet television about a catastrophe abroad, Russians often call Western friends to find out whether something has happened in the Soviet Union.”
A lot of Americans look to foreign news for an honest appraisal of what is happening in the US; the Obamunists have controlled our media for a long time. As our plight at home worsens, we get correspondingly higher doses of meaningless news from parts of the world most Americans will never see.
Russian people — good people. ALL people — good people.
.... exactly as every military has done since the dawn of the military age.
We had a friend from Kazakhstan who would say: "Koryak" (our Vanya's ethnicity) "good people. Very good. Chechnyan bad people. Very bad."
Reminds me of former friends of the Clintons and yOmama.
Lack of hope?
Or lack of God and the good news of Jesus?
Aren’t Chechnyans Muslim? That would explain it. I did say PEOPLE. LOL
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