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To: GoldenState_Rose

Russia in the 80s was communist and officially atheist. It’s troops occupied half of Europe

Russia today has a flat tax of about 12 percent, according to an article a few years back by Steve Forbes. That’s way lower than the GOP tax bill in Comgress right now!

Christianity is honored in Russia today

And Russia no longer occupied Eastern Europe.

Yet this book says Russia is as bad as when ? it was an atheist communist empire? BS


12 posted on 11/18/2017 10:42:39 AM PST by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

WilliamIII, the point of the book is that Russia is in “psychosis” mode precisely because it can’t make up its mind about what to condemn or celebrate about its past. For a good while, I lived in a Russian home and slept under a portrait of Stalin next to an icon of Jesus.

Consider the following statement made by historian Irina Pavlova in her article about the modern Russian struggle to settle on a consistent ideology (translated from Russian)

“Today we can already state the fact of schizophrenia of public consciousness in Russia. It paradoxically coexist assessment of the October revolution of 1917 as a disaster and a desire to return to the Soviet past, condemnation of the repression and the veneration of Stalin as a statesman, anti-Westernism and talk about democracy.”


16 posted on 11/18/2017 10:49:26 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: WilliamIII

[Christianity is honored in Russia today]

Putin’s War on Christianity Is the Russia Issue That Can’t Be Ignored
https://relevantmagazine.com/article/putins-war-on-christianity-is-the-russia-issue-that-cant-be-ignored/


26 posted on 11/18/2017 11:15:03 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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