The more I see what Russia is doing these days: cracking down on homosexual propaganda, now banning dirty cartoons, etc., the more I think that they are watching what is happening in the West, especially in the USA, and they are scared sh**less that it is going to spread to their country. And that’s ironic, since their covert demoralization campaign against the US is probably the primary reason we’ve gone to hell in a handbasket so quickly. I bet the KGB had no idea that their efforts would work so well.
The longtime falling Russian birth rate has not only levelled off but is now trending upward. Most children are baptized in the Orthodox church, & new churches are being built by the hundreds, presumably on the sites of those destroyed under communism.
The Duma has said to h*** with political correctness.
Ironically, Soviet propaganda for decades decried the “decadent imperialist West” with all its creature comforts & temptations. Modern Russian society does not want to go down the tubes & their political process lacks the enervating nuances and subtleties which make decisive action so difficult here.
Have to be careful, people were saying nice things about Mussolini & Hitler’s ability to “get things done” early in those regimes.
Now let’s see how the Russians are handling their Muslim problem. They’ve had a thousand years of experience already.