Posted on 07/27/2014 1:57:56 AM PDT by Carbonsteel
It seems now that the Third Rome, with its roots in Ancient Greece and Rome, is remerging as a force for good in the world. As the West begins to sink into the despotism once associated with the East, a power with a geographic position predominantly in the east takes on the mantle of civilizational leader. Could it be that Russia is now filling the moral vacuum that has been left in the wake of the West’s retreat from the principles of human rights and human liberty?
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The notion of Russia as a champion of human rights is so absurd it makes me question the author’s sanity...
Sick.
Putin’s Russia is no moral beacon to the world. Quite the opposite. It is amazing how many people are willing to support his despotism just because he claims to be guided by the bible. Pretty disturbing really...
(Reuters) - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was voted Russia’s third most popular historical figure in a nationwide poll that ended on Sunday, despite the famine and purges that marked his rule.
The “Name of Russia” contest run by Rossiya state television channel over more than six months closed on Sunday night with a final vote via the Internet and mobile phones. It drew more than 50 million votes in a nation of 143 million.
Millions of Soviet citizens perished from famine during forced collectivization, were executed as “enemies of the people” or died in Gulag hard labor camps during Stalin’s rule which lasted for almost 30 years until his death in 1953.
“We now have to think very seriously, why the nation chooses to put Josef Vissarionovich Stalin in third place,” prominent actor and film director Nikita Mikhalkov, one of the contest’s judges, said after the results of the vote flashed on a screen.
“We may find ourselves in a situation where absolute power and voluntarism that ignores people’s opinions may prevail in our country, if a fairly large part of the nation wants it.”
I think what the author was trying to say is that Obama and Co. have taken us so far down the path of moral decay, that the most murderous nation the world has ever known is now seen as a beacon of hope.
The people running America today have no moral compass what so ever.
The Italians and Germans once thought Mussolini and Hitler “beacons of hope” also. American Christians are being deceived by Putin’s “Christianity,” in my opinion. He is no champion of freedom of religion and human rights. Non-Russian Orthodox Christians have no place in Putin’s Russia.
His kind of Christianity is more akin to the medieval totalitarian system of the Papacy, than to the kind of Christianity we have here in America (sad to say, the left has just about succeeded in bringing down faith here).
Comparing Putin’s kind of Russian Christianity to America’s freedom of religion, is apples and oranges, two very different things.
Is the truth about Stalin taught in Russia? Is the truth being taught here? I was just thinking that there is even more freedom to teach in college and so the federal grants can support the Marxist ideology even more there once they teach the kids to read.
How much truth has to be taught to be able to be aware of the worst mass murderer in white history, not much, word of mouth should have been adequate 90, 70, 50, 40 years ago, and today there is no reason for Russians to be living in total ignorance.
Russia is Russia because Russians live there, they are always the same, always Russian Orthodox, and always evil.
What we are seeing in the 21st century is just normal Russian behavior and their normal national character, it is why the free world had to unify into NATO, to protect itself from them.
To elaborate on the Russian character, they DO KNOW the truth about Stalin, if you notice, they consider the trade-offs in power and empire as worth the mass murder of their fellow Russians and innocents, murder by the tens of millions.
That was a good while ago, early 2000s IIRC.
Yes, Russians learn a lot that Americans seem to think they have no clue about.
“The notion of Russia as a champion of human rights is so absurd it makes me question the author’s sanity...”
That struck me, too.
“The notion of Russia as a champion of human rights is so absurd it makes me question the author’s sanity...”
That struck me, too.
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