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"Stalin’s popularity in Russia triples since 1990"

https://www.rt.com/politics/383597-stalins-popularity-in-russia-grows/

"Putin's plan to restore the Romanovs"

http://orthochristian.com/96323.html

For Russians disillusioned with their initial experience of capitalism and democracy, alternative history offered a therapy

Russia in no way experienced capitalism and democracy in 1991. What it actually experienced was the final chapter of socialism and forced collectivism - total corruption of the political class, naked gangsterism, extreme rent-seeking, and complete stripping of the economy to a maximum degree by cronies. It is something which America is also getting a small taste of now as well.

Anatolii Fomenko published a seriously bizarre multi-volume work which claims the Catholic Church (well, of course!) accomplished the greatest intellectual fraud in history: Tricking everyone into believing that 2,000 years have passed since the time of Christ when in reality it was only 1,000 years. Thus, the crusades were not a fight against Muslims in the Holy Land, but rather an attack against those who crucified Christ! Or something like that. It’s been several years since I read parts of the first volume.

Truly bizarre, profusely illustrated, packed with pseudo-learning and pseudo scholarship and utterly convincing to a growing number of gullible rubes.

Here’s the Amazon.com page for the first of the volumes in the series: https://www.amazon.com/History-mathematical-statistics-Eclipses-Chronology/dp/2913621074/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1515975859&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=Anatolii+Fomenko There is a lengthy description of the gist of the book.