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Posted on 10/13/2019 3:44:32 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
In October 1917, Lenin's Bolshevik Party seized power and inaugurated the first communist workers' state, founded on the principles of Karl Marx's “Das Kapital.” Almost immediately, the race was on to turn antiquated, almost feudal imperial Russia into a communist utopia. It was a tall order in Russia: the vast majority of the population of the nascent Soviet state were illiterate peasants, for whom the traditions and tenants of Orthodox Christianity were the sole cultural and spiritual bedrock. Replacing it with the more complicated economic and social principles of Marxism took ingenuity, dedication and ruthlessness.
The state embarked on a nationwide campaign to discredit all deities, confessions and religious traditions throughout the former empire. They closed all religious-affiliated schools, closed monasteries and sanctioned wholesale destruction of church property. The effort would span decades until it simply ran out of steam in the 1980s. But at its height, the anti-religious campaign was a highly effective arm of the state, which harnessed a powerful medium — graphic art and the propaganda poster — to communicate its core message that religion had no place in communist life.
In “Godless Utopia,” Brown gives us much to consider about the nature of man's relationship with both church and state. “Godless Utopia” examines the anti-religious campaign of the Soviet Union in its entirety as a separate political and social phenomenon... The result is a beautiful volume of illustrations and images as disturbing as they are thought-provoking — particularly so now, when the world is witness to a new resurgence of religious intolerance.
Students of Russian history will welcome the publication of “Godless Utopia” this month, but so too will art historians, religious scholars, as well as observers of Russia's cultural history and indeed anyone who has embarked on the quixotic search for the elusive Russian soul.
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Satan has been on this crusade since the Garden of Eden. Failing ever since, the rabid leftist fools have yet to learn their lesson.
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But a lot of Neocons love dredging up Russia's past. However, Russia turned a corner almost 3 decades ago. Christianity now flourishes in Russia, more than almost anywhere else in the world. Taxes are the lowest, and entrepreneurship is booming, all while fighting their own battle against Muslim madmen.
Today's Russia is not your father's Russia. It is certainly more conservative and Christian than, for example, any country in the EU.
Ping. Fascinating article.
Utopia isn’t the perfect place. Utopia is literally no place because it doesn’t exist.
There's a land where little children cannot play
And the people have forgotten how to pray.
It's a land where faith and friendship should be tried,
But an Iron Curtain keeps the Lord outside.
They locked God outside the Iron Curtain.
On old Satan they have placed a kingly crown.
But this evil nation will never find salvation
Till the Lord tears the Iron Curtain down.
They have tried to chop away the rugged cross.
But someday the Lord will show them who is boss.
He will count the faithful standing at his side
And in judgment, he will lock the rest outside.
Take a big glass of socialism, add poverty and no jobs, fill to the top with vodka, and a dash of bitter resentment....voila....a Bloody Russian. (Shake or stir, doesn’t really matter)
I Will Resurrect Russia As I Have Resurrected Lazarus“For what it’s worth.”
January 4, 1988Satan Offered Russia The Deadly Fruit
January 5, 1988Russia Will Be The Symbol Of God's Glory
February 1, 1988My Russia, How I The Lord Love You!
March 11, 1988Do Not Harden Your Heart, Doubting
A Prayer For Russia
July 8, 1990Prophecy: Russia Will Govern The Rest Of My Children In Holiness
October 20, 1992Prophecy: I Will Lift Her (Russia) To Become The Head Of Many Nations
October 25, 1992
A lot was happening in the world when these were written, which makes them even more intriguing to me.
“Your mileage may vary”, of course.
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