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The army, which is now in need of an ideological basis , has created ties with the church, which offers an alternative to Soviet ideology due to its patriotic stance. Although the Ministry of Defense and the Church signed cooperation agreements in the early 1990s, there are no (to our knowledge) official agreements concerning specific joint action towards youth; nevertheless the church has been organizing, for already several years, hand in hand with the ministry of Defense, summer military training camps for children.

Quotation: Metropolitan Pitirim, a senior figure in the Moscow Orthodox Patriarche was quoted in 2000 as saying that "children should be taught to love the smell of barracks and soldiers' boots " [The Electric Telegraph, 13 February 2000, Guy Chazan, « Putin restart military training for Schoolboys », selected by Johnson Russia List, # 4104].

I'm starting to see where your Orthodox Church is getting their support of Putin...he's promised to make them partners this time in the new Soviet Union. Personally, I don't think "children should be taught to love the smell of barracks and soldiers' boots" is exactly what most people would have in mind for church indoctrination of children.

I'm starting to see where your Orthodox Church is getting their support of Putin...

You should probably stop before you really step in it. Even though most of what you have posted so far I havre successfully and quite easily shown to be lies and paranoia. LOL.

You don't know anything about my church nor about the Moscow Patriarch. But go ahead and continue to show the rest of FR how quickly you speak and form opinions in ignorance.