“There are no high Russian public officials of Putin’s age that did not start out as a Communist Party member working for a preferred Soviet bureaucracy.”
Indeed, the criminals merely rebranded themselves. Putin wasn’t some bureaucrat though. He has dirty hands.
“And they should use their national religion for Islamic Caliphate purposes?”
You should do some reading on Alexandr Dugin, one of Putin’s mentors and a big promoter of the Russian Orthodox. He talks extermination of the West like it was nothing. Is that closer to Christianity or Islamic Caliphate? You can’t take at face value what the Russians do, even their approved religious leaders, especially when we know they’re more KGB than anything else.
Can you tell me where the Russian Orthodox Church has condemned Putin for those thrown from windows or beaten up in dark alleys for asking the wrong questions or doing the wrong things?
“That is also true, and could be said of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, or King Jan III of Poland, as well.”
Communists and their former servants can’t really be compared to those guys. Even the Impaler Prince was an underperformer compared to the Soviets.
Sort of like the American Communists rebranded themselves "Environmentalists"?
And Leftist DemoRats don't have dirty hands? Or want to put Conservatives and Baptist Christians in concentration camps?
It would be more wise to try and figure out what's going on in Russia, rather than assuming that it must be worse than the Rat Obamination because it's Putin.