Keep in mind under Putin, "The Gulag Archipelago" is now required reading in Russian schools.
Posted on 09/24/2013 4:34:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Listen to Russian president Vladimir Putin these days and you’ll hear him depicting Russia as the last bulwark of conservative Christian values against the decadence of the rest of Europe.
Forgetting Christianity and the accompanying excess of political correctness is leading Europe to a deep moral crisis, he argued on Thursday at the annual Valdai Club conference at a lakeside resort north of Moscow. Russia, with its great history, literature and culture, will resist the tide.
He damned multiculturalism, which he called a legacy of colonialism that now even western European countries were beginning to see as a failure.
After being condemned internationally for promoting legislation that was aimed he said at protecting minors from homosexual propaganda, he suggested same-sex marriages were contributing to Europe’s low birth rate. “Europeans are dying out,” he said. “Same-sex marriages can’t produce children.” Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister, wouldn’t be suffering his legal troubles if he’d been homosexual, Mr. Putin joked.
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That’s exactly what the USSR did too. They called it “bourgeoise decadence” back then.
Putin’s got an open spot in the schedule as a stand up comic (humor being based on truth).
Funny, ...Hitler said Germany was the Bulwark Against European Decadence
Keep in mind under Putin, "The Gulag Archipelago" is now required reading in Russian schools.
Do you consider same-sex marriage to be a sign of decadence?
He has a point.
With less justice.
Things were very bad in Soviet Russia, nor were they anywhere as bad in Europe as we see today.
The truth here is all a matter of degree.
Statism is a strong tool against decadence when it’s decadence that’s being controlled.
In that case, Europe is doomed!
You can bet the same folks who support Communist China with Free Trade .....are the same ones whining the most about Putin
His critics are the Commies
I consider nonsequiturs as not contributing to a discussion. And as far as that goes, I’m waiting for the Kremlin to explicitly ban so-called “SSM”. The Kremlin instead repeating what the USSR said in the past does not help matters.
Take note that Putin, with respect to Silvio Berlusconi, did not condemn his activities with an underage girl.
Why then are Russia and China such strong partners in regards to military cooperation?
They're not. It's the equivalent of our "relationship" with the Soviet Union during WWII.
Putin cares about Russia and the Russian people. And it shows. I wish Obama cared for the United States half as much...
They are, and denying it will not help matters. They’ve been doing joint military exercises ever since 2007 at least, and they have strong economic and even parliamentary cooperation. They even restarted through freight rail service in August of this year.
To be honest “Gulag” was already a part of school program in Russia about a decade before Putin.
>>>They are, and denying it will not help matters. They’ve been doing joint military exercises ever since 2007 at least, and they have strong economic and even parliamentary cooperation. They even restarted through freight rail service in August of this year.<<<
Can you distinguish between propaganda and facts?
Russian-Chinese relations are only a little better than it was in 1969 when they were shooting each other.
They may have restarted a single railway but US has hundreds of Chinese container ships in ports every day and what?
A tiny drills involving a few assets are nothing more than a smoke screen and a way to show off to each other.
Yes, I can distinguish between propaganda and facts. You brought the propaganda; I brought the facts.
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