Christian MP goes on trial in Finland for calling homosexuality a disorder

Paivi Rasanen, a medical doctor and MP for a small Christian-democratic party since 1995, called homosexuality "a developmental disorder" in an online opinion letter published in 2004 and "a shame and a sin" on Twitter in 2019, the prosecutor said.

In a programme broadcast by Finnish public radio station Yle in 2019, Rasanen described homosexuality as a form of "genetic degeneration", the prosecutor added, charging her with three counts of agitation against gay people.

In her 2004 opinion piece, Rasanen claimed that scientific evidence proved undeniably that homosexuality was a disorder in a person's psychosexual development and she suggested that gay relationships early in life could lead to sexual abuse by adult men.

In her 2019 comment on Twitter, Rasanen questioned the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran state church's decision to partner with a leading LGBTI rights association to organise a Pride event, and posted a picture of a quote from the Bible condemning gay relations.

The prosecutor says Rasanen should be fined and the public broadcaster ordered to remove parts of the radio programme.

I admire the Finns, for several reasons. Before I address one specific reason, I will assert categorically: No nation has done more harm by promoting homoeroticism (for there is no such thing as homosexuality) than the United States of America. To condemn the people of Finland is to focus on the Mote in their Eye while ignoring the Log (no pun intended) in the American Eye!

Now on to that one specific reason:

It is incorrect that Finland was a political ally of Germany (in the ideological sense).

It is incorrect that no other country came to their aid (in a practical, non-partisan sense).

The Finns were facing an existential crisis. Russia invaded Finland in 1939, and at that time Russia and Germany essentially had a mutual non-interference pact. Finland survived the Winter War of 1940, but Russia violated the armistice with the Continuation War, starting in 1941. Prior to entering the war, the United States prematurely declared the Brewster F2A-1 (later code-named Buffalo by the British) “obsolete” so that they could make them available as a civilian “export” model to Finland without being accused of acting as a belligerent.

These 44 F2A-1 fighters, re-designated B-239 as a de-navalized, de-rated (lower-horsepower) export model, became the front-line fighter for Finland into 1944, during the worst of the Continuation War. These aircraft attained one of the highest kill-to-loss ratios in military aviation history, rivaling that of the American Volunteer Group (The Flying Tigers) under Claire Chennault. It was finally relegated to second-line use in 1944, in part due to losses and parts shortages, but also to the availability of late-model Messerschmitt Bf-109G fighters, which were faster. Only eight of the 44 Brewsters survived the war.

Most of the highest-ranking aces in Finland flew the type; there were a total of 36 Brewster aces. Eino Luukkanen, all-time Ace Number 3 (56 aerial combat victories), wrote a book called “Fighter Over Finland” (which I read in the English translation) that chronicled his experiences fighting in the skies against the Russians. The Russians flew not only their own Polikarpov, Mikoyen-Gurevich, Lavochkin, and Yakovlev fighters, but also Lend-Lease aircraft such as the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, Curtiss Tomahawk/Warhawk (P-40), and Bell Airacobra (P-39) fighters. The Brewsters, piloted by superb pilots with good tactics, bested all types flown by the Russians. Luukanan rated the Brewster as one of the best aerobatic fighters he ever flew, “capable of violent and difficult maneuvers at high speed”. The Finns nick-named the Brewster the “Taivaan Helmi” (”Sky Pearl”), and even attempted to create a wood-metal hybrid version for domestic production. A Brewster remains on static display in a museum as a tribute to its role in helping Finland survive WWII: They consider the airplane to have made a pivotal contribution to Finland’s survival in the Continuation War.

The Brewster F2A Buffalo is one of the most underrated and unjustly maligned fighters in US history. It was the first cantilever monoplane with enclosed cockpit and retractable gear, and the first military airframe aerodynamically enhanced via wind tunnel testing.

It was a much superior flying machine to the Grumman F4F, which was very sturdy but was too stable a flying platform to be effective in a dogfight: The F2A was much more controllable and maneuverable, and a noticeably faster airframe (objectively proven when the F4F was fitted with exactly the same model of the same engine: the Wright Cyclone R-1820-40): With that engine, the XF2A-2 had a top speed of 326 mph, while the XF4F-5 had a top speed of 312 mph. The standard Wildcat benefited from an engine (the Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp R-1830) with a two-stage supercharger; the single-stage supercharger in the Buffalo engine was its biggest weakness. But the Pentagon gave up on the type rather than develop it with a better engine – or simply a later version of the Wright Cyclone (as was used in the Goodyear version of the Wildcat).

The British test pilots officially classified the Buffalo Mk. I as a superior flying machine to both the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire (both of which were famous in Europe for being maneuverable). That meant its handling, controllability, and maneuverability were superior, not its level flight maximum speed (which is part of what was called performance). The two British planes were faster at altitude – due largely to the two-stage Rolls Royce Merlin engine – and that had became the prime characteristic in the West when choosing a fighter design.

In the Pacific, the Buffalo only saw combat with the US once, at Midway, with the Marines – not the Navy. They were mostly F2A-3 models, a final version ruined by Federal and corporate bureaucracy, after the Navy gave up on the type’s development; it was a stretched and overloaded airframe without any added power, and was no longer very maneuverable. The Buffalos (and Wildcats) at Midway were heavily outnumbered, flown by brave but inexperienced American pilots against superior numbers of superior types flown by experienced flyers, including aces, from the China conflict.

The later export versions, B-339 and B-339-23, were both underpowered (in accordance with international limitations, including lower-octane fuel availability), and were overloaded with extra equipment. They were, as usual in the early Pacific Theater, heavily outnumbered by both Imperial Navy A6M Reisen (Zero/Zeke) and Army Ki-43 Hayabusa (Oscar) fighters.

A Marine commander from Midway vilified the type, and the label stuck forever after with all unquestioning academic historians who do no first-hand research. None of them then or later cared much about what happened in Finland: the only place where the Buffalo was given a fair chance, even though it was as heavily outnumbered there as in the Pacific.

(For reference, the RAF sent an elite squadron of new Spitfires flown by Battle of Britain veterans, including aces, to the Pacific, thinking they would teach the Japanese a lesson. Seventeen were shot down in two days! The Pacific Theater problem did not lie solely with the Buffalo.)

A US Navy WWII veteran pilot once wrote an article about this almost twenty years ago. He flew every major type in the Pacific in WWII: all American types (F2A, F4F, F6F, F4U), and flew against all of the major Japanese types. He asserted that the F2A-2 – the best version, with more power and less weight, highly maneuverable with a good climb rate – was the only American fighter that could have bested the Zero in a dogfight. (The spectacular F8F came too late to see combat.) He said that he and many other pre-war/early-war Navy pilots regretted the Pentagon decision to withdraw the F2A-2 from frontline service before the aircraft carriers steamed to the Pacific.

Unfortunately for both plane and the company, Grumman – a larger company with a longer track record and better management – won out over Brewster, and the F2A-2 was withdrawn from frontline service by the Navy before it could see any combat in the Pacific. (A few of the worn-out and poorly maintained airframes at Midway were Dash-2s, but most were dash-3s.)

The Wildcat served a vital role in the first half of the war in the Pacific Theater, but the Brewster (specifically the F2A-2) could equally have served in that role. The Wildcat was never faster nor more maneuverable than its opponents, so simply denouncing the Brewster as obsolescent is specious: The F4F was also obsolescent from the very start of its service compared to the most modern competing types.

Long, but wish a few on Free Republic would seek the truth.

🇺🇸 You are historically correct -

“The plan was to destroy the moral foundation of Western society and weaken its ability to resist future Soviet military invasion. At a secret meeting held in Moscow in 1962, attended by Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, it was explained that American schools were to be high priority targets, since they would produce future American leaders.(2) Also targeted was the American notion of the work ethic, as well as pride and loyalty to the United States. By drowning the country in illegal drugs, the Soviets would reduce the influence of religion, the foundation of Western stability and morality. The result would be social chaos. This plan was classified above top secret, even higher than the yearly intelligence plans. Interestingly, a special propaganda and disinformation arm was set up so that the blame for the deterioration of society would be directed toward American institutions and traditions.”

https://www.jpands.org/hacienda/blaylock3.html

Putin: Defender of Christian Faith and Morality?

Vol. 30, No. 19
October 6, 2014

In a great role reversal, liberal-left activists and the mainstream media are attacking Russia and beating war drums, while many conservatives are hailing Putin as friend and ally. Are those our only options?

William F. Jasper

[Putin] has restored the state. And Russian patriotism.... Little by little, he has become the leader of world opposition to the new ideological order dominated by the West [and characterised by] antiracism, globalism, homophilia, feminism, Islamophilia and Christianophobia.... He defends national sovereignty, family and the Orthodox religion.

— French intellectual Eric Zemmour, writing in Figaro magazine

Vladimir Putin Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize: Putin took over as President of Russia in 2000 when the country was in an economic mess. Putin has brought economic prosperity.... Putin put the crooked Jewish billionaires in prison and supported the Christian churches against the gays. He kept America out of war in Syria and Iran. Putin is aggressively combating the financial shenanigans of the New World Order.

— Texe Marrs, author, founder of Power of Prophecy Ministry

Putin has long been a supporter of Christianity and Christian values within Russia. He has called for the Church to play a larger role in citizens’ social lives, better religion classes in schools, and television programs emphasizing religious values.

— From an article entitled “Vladimir Putin Vows to Defend Christianity Worldwide,” in the Christian Post

The world has indeed been turned upside down. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, a career apparatchik in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a loyal agent of the Soviet secret police, the KGB (and head of its successor, the FSB), now not only proclaims himself to be a Christian, but has donned the mantle of global protector of Christianity and morality — to the rejoicing huzzahs of many Christians and conservatives in the West.

However, before bestowing Defender of the Faith accolades on Vladimir the Pious, we would do well to look carefully behind and beneath the highly contrived Christian image being spun by the Kremlin’s public relations department and gullible Christians with short memories in the West.

Sadly, the quotations noted are not unique, nor restricted to wild outliers.

Former GOP presidential candidate and author/commentator Patrick J. “Pat” Buchanan is a paleoconservative who seems to be enthralled with the “former” KGB chief. “In the culture war for the future of mankind, Putin is planting Russia’s flag firmly on the side of traditional Christianity,” Buchanan wrote, in one of his many pro-Putin syndicated columns.

The Buchanan column just quoted is entitled “Whose Side Is God on Now?,” not too subtly implying that Putin and his Kremlin comrades are now Heaven’s standard bearers against the decadent, post-Christian West.

Well, it is true, is it not, that President Vladimir Putin stands virtually alone among national leaders of the major powers in publicly proclaiming his Christian identity, and in condemning homosexual “marriage” — while leaders of the so-called Christian West have adopted the politically correct line that these unnatural unions are now sacrosanct? And is it not true that Putin and the Russian government have been spending hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild hundreds of Russian Orthodox churches destroyed during the militant atheism of the Soviet era? Has he not restored sacred holidays of the Julian Christian calendar? Did he not sign a national law last year outlawing advertisements for abortion? To which we must answer: yes, yes, yes, yes; true, true, true, true.

Additional “facts” can be cited to paint an even more striking image of Putin as pious champion of Christianity: crossing himself and kissing the icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary that he presented to Pope Francis during his 2013 visit to the Vatican; numerous appearances with (and blessings and endorsements from) Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church and other Christian church leaders; signing into law a “ban on the propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia” directed at children, while President Obama promotes the LBGT agenda at every level and every opportunity; speaking out against the persecution and murder of Christians by Islamic jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

All of this has led Catholic author/blogger Stephen K. Ryan to write glowingly of “born-again Christian” Putin:

Is Russian leadership more Christian than leadership in the US? Is the Russian Government more Christian than George Bush or Obama ever imagined the US might be? The answer to both questions is Yes, and thanks to born-again Christians, Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, Christian influence in matters of state is rapidly on the rise in Russia. Let’s look at the facts.

All the Facts, Please

Yes, let’s look at the facts; all of the facts — and in context. First and foremost, in any review of the basics regarding Putin, the most outstanding fact is that he is a creature of the Soviet KGB, a truly diabolical organization nonpareil, which stood for murder, terror, and grand deception. It was the Soviet Communist Party’s tool for the brutal suppression of religion, including the persecution of Christians: denying them jobs and education; spying on and entrapping them; arresting and imprisoning them; torturing them in unspeakable ways; desecrating and demolishing their church buildings; infiltrating their agents into churches to subvert them. The KGB destroyed thousands of Christian churches, monasteries, convents, and schools, and slaughtered millions of Christians.

But it did not destroy the churches utterly. There remained an underground church, whose members were always at risk of discovery, arrest, torture, and martyrdom. Above ground, the KGB took control of the Russian Orthodox Church, which became a very useful organ of the Soviet atheist state.

In January 2009, Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyaev, better known as Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, was elected, from a short list of three candidates, to be the 16th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, the highest position of authority in the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). The election was called to fill the post that had been left vacant by the death of Patriarch Alexy II, who had headed the ROC since 1990. Documents from the KGB archives have confirmed what sensible observers had long ago deduced from his actions: that Patriarch Alexy II (also spelled Alexi or Alexei) was a long-serving KGB agent (code-named Drozdov, “Blackbird”), in other words, a traitor to his Christian brethren and the God he claimed to serve. Putin’s KGB/FSB was taking no chances with his replacement. All three candidates — Metropolitan Kliment of Kaluga and Borovsk (code-named Topaz), Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk (code-named Ostrovskii), and Metropolitan Kirill (code-named Mikhailov) — also have been reliably identified as agents of the KGB/FSB.

Russia expert David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times (of London) and the Wall Street Journal, wrote of the election in 2009 for Forbes:

According to material from the Soviet archives, Kirill was a KGB agent (as was Alexei). This means he was more than just an informer, of whom there were millions in the Soviet Union. He was an active officer of the organization. Neither Kirill nor Alexei ever acknowledged or apologized for their ties with the security agencies.

Because Patriarch Kirill is of central importance to the myth of Putin as the Saul-to-Paul, Christian persecutor-to-Christian champion, it behooves us to more closely examine the man. He has publicly presided over, and provided official benedictions and exhortations for, Putin’s cynical and Stalinesque exploitation of Russian nationalism and Russian Orthodoxy. Josef Stalin, who had very nearly consummated the annihilation of the Russian Orthodox Church begun by Vladimir Lenin, reversed course in 1941. The reason? His erstwhile partner in crime, Adolf Hitler, had turned on him and had invaded Russia. Stalin, needing all the help he could get, cut a deal with ROC Metropolitans Sergius, Nikolay, and Alexy. In exchange for their support in rallying the Russian people, he would cease (temporarily) the persecution and allow the reopening of churches and theological schools. In fact, Stalin’s Soviet government paid for the rebuilding of many of the churches. The ROC was thus placed even more firmly under the control of the NKVD, which was later to be reorganized and renamed as the KGB.

Metropolitan Sergius had shown his true colors as far back as 1927, with his illegal proclamation that the church would be absolutely loyal to the communist government of the Soviet Union. Stalin rewarded Sergius by having him enthroned as Patriarch of Moscow in 1943.

Ever since, the Russian Orthodox Church has been the handmaiden and enabler of Soviet and post-Soviet regimes that rule the Kremlin. Following Sergius’ example, his successors likewise flourished by pacifying dissent at home and providing propaganda to the outside world to discredit reports exposing the true nature of the religious persecution and subversion going on in the Soviet Union. However, the cooperation of the church hierarchy notwithstanding, persecution of true believers returned with a new vengeance under the successive reigns of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Chernenko, and Andropov.

Kirill, though, did not have to worry about feeling the sting of persecution; he was in tight with the persecutors and on the fast track to privilege and power! In 1969, at the age of 22, he was tonsured by Metropolitan Nikodim, one of the ROC’s most notorious KGB agents (code-named Adamant). The following year Nikodim appointed Kirill as his personal secretary and began boosting him through the ROC ranks: archimandrite, bishop, archbishop, metropolitan. One of Kirill’s most important services to the ROC/KGB was to provide a public face for the Soviet Union at the conferences of the World Council of Churches. Kirill, in fact, became a top official in the WCC, being elected to the central and executive committees of the WCC in 1975.

Such service has its earthly rewards; while the Christian brothers and sisters he betrayed were tortured and killed, or rotted away in the infamous Gulag Archipelago and psychiatric prisons, Kirill (a.k.a. Agent Mikhailov) enjoyed the high life of the Communist Party’s elite “nomenklatura.” David Satter writes:

In 1995, the Nikolo-Ugreshky Monastery, which is directly subordinated to the patriarchate, earned $350 million from the sale of alcohol. The patriarchate’s department of foreign church relations, which Kirill ran, earned $75 million from the sale of tobacco. But the patriarchate reported an annual budget in 1995-1996 of only $2 million. Kirill’s personal wealth was estimated by the Moscow News in 2006 to be $4 billion.

Such is the moral pedigree of “Patriarch” Kirill, the man who serves as Putin’s “spiritual advisor” and public photo-op prop. And we have barely touched on the full extent of Agent Mikhailov’s ill-famed record. Is this the man who will spiritually guide the new champion of a Christian world order? Many naïve Christians and conservatives apparently think so.

In his current ruse as Defender of the Faith, Putin is not only channeling Stalin, but also Lenin, that original Bolshevik persecutor of the church. Lenin was the supreme pragmatist, happily willing to use “whatever works,” and constantly at odds with rigid communist “purists” who failed to grasp the necessity of operational flexibility in the pursuit of the final objective. Thus, he was willing (temporarily), in the early 1920s to abandon “war communism” and adopt a faux market capitalism (his New Economic Policy) to attract foreign capital and stimulate the Soviet economy. Likewise, prior to taking control in Russia, he instructed fellow revolutionaries to conceal their atheist fervor, in order to win the Christian support necessary for their communist venture.

In his 1905 work, Socialism and Religion, Lenin wrote:

It would be stupid to think that, in a society based on the endless oppression and coarsening of the worker masses, religious prejudices could be dispelled by purely propaganda methods.... That is the reason why we do not and should not set forth our atheism in our Programme; that is why we do not and should not prohibit proletarians who still retain vestiges of their old prejudices from associating themselves with our Party.

Once he had consolidated sufficient power, Lenin set loose the Cheka (later to become the NKVD, then renamed as the KGB, then the FSB) to smite the religious allies who had unwittingly helped the closet atheists to take control. Putin, a lifelong Marxist-Leninist, as well as a professional Chekist, is merely recycling the lessons learned from the playbooks of Lenin and Stalin. None of Putin’s “reforms” is irreversible and his Potempkin Christianity is just that, a façade, a velvet glove that hides the iron fist of his KGB/FSB gangster state that rules the Kremlin.

By Their Fruits

Our space limitations here will not allow even a partial cataloging of Putin’s many criminal actions that eclipse his much-publicized Christian statements and moral posturing. Here are just a few items that seem to have slipped down the memory hole for those who now see him as some kind of new global moral leader:

• Assuming and exercising dictatorial powers throughout Russia, unprecedented since Stalin’s time.

• Appointing more KGB/FSB agents to government positions than at any previous time in Soviet or Russian Federation history. As reported by the BBC and other news agencies, studies show that 80 percent or more of Putin’s political appointees and administrators come from the security/intelligence agencies. [Putin literally bragging about total US and EU KGB/FSB penetration of every facet of US and EU societies.]

• Murdering Russian citizens through a number of FSB-run “Chechen terrorist attacks” in order to whip up public support for invading Chechnya. These crimes have been well documented in, for instance, Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State by David Satter, former Russian correspondent for the Financial Times of London and now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University; Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror by FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko; The Assassination of Russia, a documentary film by Jean-Charles Deniau; The Litvinenko File by BBC reporter Martin Sixsmith; Disbelief, a documentary film by Andrei Nekrasov; and The Moscow Bombings of September 1999: Examinations of Russian Terrorist Attacks at the Onset of Vladimir Putin’s Rule by Hoover Institution Senior Fellow John Dunlop.

• Invading, bombing, and occupying Chechnya, including destroying much of the country and wantonly killing many civilians, including women and children. Independent estimates of the number of civilian casualties in Chechnya range from 25,000 to 200,000.

• Restoring a bust of Lenin’s first Cheka chief, Felix Dzerzhinsky (who proclaimed, “We stand for organized terror”) to a place of honor at the notorious KGB Lubyanka headquarters, and attempting to restore a giant statue of Dzerzhinsky to its former place of honor in Moscow’s Lubyanka Square.

• Murdering Russian journalists, whistleblowers, and dissidents who are brave enough to challenge his corrupt dictatorship. Famous investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya is the most well-known example, but Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists cite dozens of additional cases and have named Putin one of the world’s top “predators” of journalists. The 2006 poison murder of FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko in Britain is well known, but less known are the cases of General Trofimov, Movladi Baysarov, opposition Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party Sergei Yushenkov, Kovalev Commission member Yuri Shchekochikhin, human rights attorney Stanslav Markelov, human rights activist Natalia Estemirova — and many others. [While I was there, a number of western journalists, and foreign businessmen who had ties to Russian journalists murdered, were also murdered - multiple names]

• Expanding the “soft persecution” of Christian churches and organizations that are outside of the rigid state control exercised within the Russian Orthodox Church. [Through the 1990’s and 2000’s, while in Moscow, we tried to intervene in hundreds of cases involving state related beatings and torture, disappearances (including children of all ages taken by the state and placed into “orphanages”, imprisonment, and state police murder of mostly *unregistered Evangelical and other unassociated underground Baptist churches.]

Concerning the last point above, organizations such as the Keston Institute of Oxford, England; International Christian Concern; and others have documented that Russia’s Ministry of Justice has been using the pretext of “looking for religious extremism” to carry out illegal inspections, harassment, and suppression of Baptist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Adventist, Latter Day Saints, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and independent churches and Christian organizations. Churches other than the ROC find it difficult to get visas for priests and ministers to come to Russia, or to get permission to have meetings for Bible studies, prayer groups, and worship services.

While Putin was hailed by pro-life forces in the West for signing a law restricting advertising for abortion, Russia maintains the highest abortion rate (37.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44) of any country reported in United Nations data. What’s more, the government still provides free abortion service. The official number of abortions in Russia hovers around one million annually, but pro-life critics say the actual number may be several times that. The Putin government, however, does appear to be somewhat in earnest on this issue, but for practical, not moral reasons. With a falling birthrate and facing demographic implosion, Russia needs to dramatically ramp up its fertility rate to sustain any hope of futurity.[Historically, Lennon, Stalin, Khrushchev, etc, all the way to Putin, have regulated birthrates, depending on level of need for the state. Some aborted girl’s, or girls and boys, or then used the state to increase the number of children - many articles]

Vladimir Putin’s condemnations of the depravity of modern, anti-Christian culture have won rave reviews from Western Christians, which might lead many to think that Putin’s Russia is some exemplary redoubt of wholesome virtue. However, Russia today is every bit as degenerate (if not more so) as the fleshpots of the West. Pornography, child pornography, prostitution, child prostitution, sex trafficking of women and children, drug trafficking, drug addiction, alcoholism, suicide, homicide, and other social pathologies are rampant throughout Russia and cannot simply be blamed on the “decadent West.”

The Great Deception

Soviet KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn has proven to be one of the most accurate and prescient predictors of the great deception that we are now witnessing in Russia. In his famous book New Lies for Old, published in 1984, Golitsyn exposed the striking emphasis that the Kremlin strategists placed on conferences and coalitions aimed at using Christians to further the objective of one-world socialism. Golitsyn wrote:

The Christian Peace Conference, composed of East European church leaders, dates from the period of the formulation of the long-range policy [1958]. It has played an active part in influencing Western churches in the interests of that policy.

The Second All Christian Congress in Defense of Peace, held in Prague in June-July 1964, attracted one thousand delegates, including representatives of Buddhism and Islam as well as the Orthodox, Catholic, and the Anglican and other Protestant churches. The introductory speech was made by Gromadka of [Communist] Czechoslovakia, the president of the Christian Peace Conference.

Golitsyn further noted:

The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia recorded that by 1972 the World Council of Churches had been converted from a “pro-Western” to a “progressive” orientation in its policies on peace, disarmament, and related matters.

Patriarch Kirill and his ROC/KGB subordinates continue to effectively use the World Council of Churches as a tool for Kremlin policy. However, in recent years many new fronts have been established to further the same subversive agenda. One of the most important new organizations may be the Congress of World and Traditional Religions, headquartered in Astana, Kazakhstan, and founded by Nursultan Nazarbayev, the brutal communist dictator of Kazakhstan.

The 74-year-old Nazarbayev joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1962, and rose to become first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the SSR. Since 1991, he has ruled as “president” of Kazakhstan, one of the most repressive of the “former” Soviet states. Like Putin, he has been magically transformed into a spiritual man. But since Kazakhstan is a Muslim country, Nazarbayev discovered that he was a Muslim, of course. This also has proved helpful in placing Kazakhstan’s communist agents inside the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, “the collective voice of the Muslim world.”

Universal Phenomenon

The Nazarbayev “conversion” is not unique. Virtually anywhere one might look throughout the world today, one will find “former” communist leaders proclaiming themselves now to have converted to Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, or Hinduism. Genuine conversions of this type do occur, of course, as evidenced by the journeys of Whittaker Chambers, Maurice Malkin, Bella Dodd, Douglas Hyde, Louis Budenz, and many others. However, their breaks were clean; they didn’t cling to power or continue to push the socialist line. But in case after case, the most famous “converts” today give unmistakable evidence of having simply donned a new costume to facilitate the continuation of their same play under a different title. Here are a few of the so-called converts who still promote the Marxist-Leninist doctrine:

• Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil and “former” communist terrorist;

• Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua and “former” Sandinista terrorist;

• Father Miguel D’Escoto, former Sandinista foreign minister and president of the United Nations General Assembly;

• Hugo Chávez, the late dictator of Venezuela;

• Illich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist also known as “Carlos the Jackal”;

• Arthur Waskow, veteran Marxist of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS);

• Mehdi Chamron, a founder of communist “Red Shiism” in the United States, and now an official in the Iranian regime;

• Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the terrorist PLO and “president of Palestine”;

• Angela Merkel, “former” communist propagandist and now president of Germany; and

• Gulbadin Hekmatyar, KGB agent and Afghan warlord leader of Hezb-e-Islami.

The list goes on and on. What becomes frighteningly clear from a comprehensive study of this false “conversion” phenomenon is that Golitsyn and other “Cassandras” who recognized this as a strategic Trojan Horse were right.

So, let’s recap some key points:

• Putin is a lifelong agent (and leader) of the KGB/FSB, the communist instrument used to persecute, infiltrate, and subvert Christianity in Russia.

• Putin is following the playbooks of both Lenin and Stalin of alternately (and simultaneously) persecuting and exploiting religion.

• The KGB-run Russian Orthodox Church is Putin’s “Christian” propaganda section and Patriarch Kirill (Agent Mikhailov) is his right-hand man.

• Far from exemplifying Christian virtues, Putin is running a KGB-mafia state that employs murder, repression, and terror.

• Putin’s “conversion” fits a global pattern (Nazarbayev, Rousseff, Abbas, Ortega, Chávez, et al.) of Marxist-Leninists who are using religion to advance the same communist objectives.

KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn’s detailed study of the deceptive, gradual merging of the communist and non-communist blocs under world socialism, tragically, is proving to be all too accurate. However, Christians are called to “be wise as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matthew 10:16). Why then allow ourselves to be deceived by a diabolical disorientation that would put up an agent of anti-Christ communism as a new “savior” of Christendom?

https://thenewamerican.com/putin-defender-of-christian-faith-and-morality/

KGB and Putin’s Intervention to Ascendency of the Roman Catholic Church

Jorge Mario Bergoglio born 1936, today known as Pope Francis is the 266th pope, or is he?

D6v Open Source

http://www.analysis-review.com/catholic-pope-kgb-patriarch-get-together/

https://traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A956-Sch.htm

https://www.catholicamericanthinker.com/Red-Pope.html

https://www.aim.org/aim-column/pope-francis-jihad-and-moscows-espionage-church/

https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/liberation-theology-activist-pope-francis-is-one-of-us

https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/i99ht_104_Kirill.html

Putin and Pope United —

https://watchingamerica.com/WA/2018/01/14/pope-francis-and-putin-2018s-unspoken-partnership/

https://newspunch.com/wikileaks-soros-vatican-coup/

https://www.fromrome.info/2021/08/10/pope-benedict-xvi-was-pressured-to-resign-by-the-prussian-masonic-lodges/

https://www.fromrome.info/2021/08/18/vatican-ii-revolution-tied-directly-to-klaus-schwab-of-the-great-reset/

https://mainerepublicemailreport.com/2018/06/10/pope-francis-found-guilty-of-child-trafficking-rape-and-murder/

http://themillenniumreport.com/2018/08/the-so-called-vicar-of-jesus-christ-is-in-serious-trouble/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-21794798

https://www.fromrome.info/2021/03/20/in-2016-pope-benedict-xvi-signaled-that-bergoglio-is-only-a-cardinal/

https://contendingfortruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/End-Time-Current-Events-8-26-18.pdf

VATICAN II / Goudium Spetz

- KGB/Marxist Arch Brazilian Bishop Camarra + 42 Bishops procession to Underground Chapel Catacombs to sign Pact. Followed after procession of Pagan Idols of “Hachemama” @ -9:45, (Advocate of Global Depopulation by all means) -

Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Current FSB Pope) alongside then KGB Bishop Camarra for entire procession and Catacomb Pact

(Many event literate Catholics refer to this as “Abomination of Desolation “. Not Biblical “AoD” from Daniel writing from Babylon.

- KGB Bishop Camarra attacked John Paul II on social and abortion positions, advocating for depopulation, and proligwratiin of Social Marxism in the West (Unoted States and Europe)

- 1965 “Brotherhood of Man Catacomb Pact”

- Re-Ordered by Francis Amazon Synod (New Social Order / New World Order in 2019

- Klaus Schwab introduces new Global Communist architecture (advocated by Gorbachev) through KGB Priest to RCC, forces WEF acceptance of illegal communist KGB Bishop at Davos, Switzerland —> Start at -12:40 and -16:15 (of 35:20)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjeumh21xE

*Okay Freeper Nation, dare yah to listen to this clip, or to click on any of those link. 🇺🇸

Can you connect the screaming dots?

The current global, no moral boundaries, social marxism architecture and push is directly tied to your new found leftist hero.

You have Putin 180 degrees backwards -

But then literally believing a lie, and embracing the enemy who has destroyed you is so invigorating...

/S?

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