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The Russian Effort to Abolish Marriage
TheAtlantic ^ | July 1926 | A Woman Resident in Russia

Posted on 10/04/2008 7:08:04 AM PDT by RogerFGay

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1 posted on 10/04/2008 7:08:04 AM PDT by RogerFGay
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To: RogerFGay
Anti-Commie, Truth-Based Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!

Well, both Bill Clinton

and Barack Obama...

would probably be foursquare behind this!

Sarah Palin and Todd...

Not so much.

Cheers!

2 posted on 10/04/2008 7:23:06 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: RogerFGay

How can we be going down this same road? 1926 all over again.


3 posted on 10/04/2008 7:23:26 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: RogerFGay
When they do their dance, they wear bloomer pants.
When they take a drink, they don't stop to think.
Far, far, far, far away in that Bolsheviki land....
--from Bolshevik, recorded by Waring's Pennsylvanians
Victor 20146, 1926

4 posted on 10/04/2008 7:25:20 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: grey_whiskers

I haven’t had my coffee yet. For today only, “No cheers to you.” (smile)


5 posted on 10/04/2008 7:27:03 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: RogerFGay

1960s free love ping


6 posted on 10/04/2008 7:27:50 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: RogerFGay

I thought Russia did that decades ago by turning 90% of their male population into alcoholics? ;)


7 posted on 10/04/2008 7:30:20 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: ecomcon

The family is our basic social unit - a fundamental element in a free society. The political class doesn’t want us to have that anymore, so they’re destroying the family. It’s a continuation of a path defined in the 1960s that began to take hold in a big way in the 1980s, and into full fruition during Clinton’s presidency in the 1990s. During the 1990s, the national discussion was pretty much copy-pasted from the old Russian debates. Now that civilization lost, the old media is not going to allow a national discussion to start up again. We are now required to accept what happened.


8 posted on 10/04/2008 7:39:48 AM PDT by RogerFGay
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To: Mr. Jeeves

The article was published in 1926.


9 posted on 10/04/2008 7:40:18 AM PDT by RogerFGay
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To: RogerFGay

My observations in Russia is that the wedding industry is flourishing as in the US, but the marriage institution is in serious trouble.


10 posted on 10/04/2008 7:44:27 AM PDT by madinmadtown
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To: madinmadtown
The pimps are doing well. In the US, the pimps are politicians and judges - the system is more socialized than in Russia.
11 posted on 10/04/2008 7:46:19 AM PDT by RogerFGay
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To: RogerFGay

What opinion has the politburo on allowing their army of homosexuals to wed?


12 posted on 10/04/2008 7:52:40 AM PDT by IbJensen (Ali Bama isn't going to make it!)
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To: RogerFGay

Thank for posting this...as a reminder of the horrors that were visited upon the Russian people and now being pushed upon us.


13 posted on 10/04/2008 8:05:14 AM PDT by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! +)
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To: mlocher

“1960s free love ping”

Everyone with an interest in this subject should read every word of this book, carefully:

http://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Decadence-Western-Cultural-Present/dp/0060928832

It gave me a whole new perspective on both the emergence of communism in Russia and the 1960s. It can be seen that all these phenomena are instances of the extrusion of the same force.

These movements all seem to have a few things in common, and the most conspicuous of these is *more sex.* Go with us, and you’ll have sexual access to a larger number of partners.

This effort to ban marriage shows me that communism is far from dead in Russia.


14 posted on 10/04/2008 8:06:41 AM PDT by dsc
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To: RogerFGay

bump


15 posted on 10/04/2008 8:20:42 AM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: RogerFGay

btt


16 posted on 10/04/2008 9:47:01 AM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: madinmadtown
That's it. Weddings are now about the extravagant party, not about the comitment of marriage. I have heard so many young co-habitating couples say they 'can't afford to get married.' What they mean is they can't afford an obscenely expensive dream wedding and reception.

Simply getting married doesn't have to cost a lot. Some 'can't afford it' because the woman will lose welfare benefits, as a couple will be less likely to meet income restrictions.

It's a crazy mixed-up world where it is far more lucrative for lower income couples to have kids out of wedlock rather than within.

17 posted on 10/04/2008 10:09:54 AM PDT by informavoracious (Oust all incumbents.)
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To: dsc
This effort to ban marriage shows me that communism is far from dead in Russia.

You are correct. And far from dead in many other parts of the world.

18 posted on 10/04/2008 10:20:25 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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"This effort to ban marriage shows me that communism is far from dead in Russia.

"You are correct. And far from dead in many other parts of the world."

It should have been made very clear when it was posted:

THIS ARTICLE IS DATED JULY, 1926!

19 posted on 10/04/2008 1:35:24 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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Slightly off topic...

...and now something a bit more modern speaking of Russian’s youths:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nashi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeA6y2vFXgU

“Nashi: Putin’s Enthusiasts - Russia”

Video Description - Quote:

Added: November 30, 2007
(less info)
Nov 2007
Ahead of this weekend’s Russian election, we offer you a new report on the controversial youth group at the centre of the pro-Putin cult.

The Nashi worship their leader - and aren’t scared of letting the world know it. Members have disrupted the campaigns of rival candidates, staged rowdy demonstrations over foreign policy issues and harassed the British and Estonian ambassadors.

Category: News & Politics
Tags: Nashi Russia Putin Cult Youth Group Worship Parades Journeyman Pictures


20 posted on 10/04/2008 2:43:40 PM PDT by Cindy
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