Orthodox Priest Gives Russians One More Thing To Worry About

Radio Free Europe ^ | 26 Feb 2015 | Daisy Sindelar

[NRx]

...Suddenly, the plot of "Machaut" -- which describes the apocalyptic destruction of 2043 Moscow at the hands of Islamists, Ukrainians, and gays -- seems less like the ravings of a lonely keyboard warrior and more like a well-informed window on what scares the Kremlin most.

"'The press secretary to the president of the Moscow Confederation and Assembly of Revolution Leaders, Tasho Pim, has warned that people who fail to comply with the new ban on intolerant thinking will be subject to involuntary euthanasia,'" a news report announces in the opening scene, followed shortly by an ad for a "happiness generator" called the HaHaHa 25.0. (The full text of the novella is available here.)

What follows is a chaotic world Chaplin himself characterizes as a "liberal hell" -- vegan breakfasts, dreadlocked African legionnaires, "intergender" ad executives who go by the personal pronoun "it," and, considering the author, a curiously detailed hookup involving graphic language and a "sex-generation belt."

[NRx]

I'm Orthodox and there is much to admire about the Russian Church, especially it's uncompromising stands against Islamo-Facism, moral relativism and radical secularism. But Chaplin has always struck me as being several fries short of a Happy Meal.

[BeadCounter]

I’d heard of him. As the story says, “hyperbole” yes, is probably what this books goes overboard are. Not exactly something unknown in most parts of the world.

[lavaroise]

Strange to see liberal hyperbole tools used to promote Russian conservative ideologies... which is different from truth or history.

Mean conservatives, they won’t let liberals sleep with islamists, Hitler and gay rapists.