Posted on 03/03/2014 7:25:43 PM PST by annalex
If Russia more genuinely embraces Christian faith it will have fewer worries.
America has generally sought to be more friend than fiend in the world. Sometimes it bumbled. But its intentions remained as constant as they did, because they were based in a Judeo-Christian ethic.
The Orthodox form is better than nothing, but it smacks of elitism. The Protestant form is more suited to be an everyman’s faith.
In America, we can not begin to conceive of the loss of life the Russians suffered from Napoleon and Hitler.
True. The only way we would sustain loses like that would be from a nuclear attack.
Who's going to try and invade us?
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Rome fell from a sustained passive invasion.
We now face a similar invasion backed by the Vatican
Some of the statements are a little questionable. The Caucasus was also important to Russian romanticism (Lermontov, etc.). Voluntarily or otherwise, Russians did go to Kazakhstan: they were the largest ethnic group there in the 1960s and 1970s.
The greatest population loss was not from Napoleon and Hitler, but from Communism itself: the Red Terror, collectivization and intentional famine in 1930’s, dislocation of farmers and destruction of productive economic life. Don’t forget several aggressive wars the USSR started in Khalkhin-Gol, Finland and Poland, the last two in alliance with Hitler.
Yes, the Soviet man sees other nations as either enemies or protective buffers, never as peoples with rights.
Crimea is no South Ossetia. This is not some remote, mountainous Georgian village inhabited by some dubious ethnicity that Russians have never heard of. Crimea is the heart of Russian romanticism. The peninsula is the only part of the classical world that Russia ever conquered. And this is why the Tsarist aristocracy fell in love with it. Crimea symbolized Russia’s 18th and 19th-century fantasy to conquer Constantinople and liberate Greek Orthodox Christians from Muslim rule. Crimea became the imperial playground: In poetry and palaces, it was extolled as the jewel in the Russian crown.
He detected one aspect: the Byzantine vector present in Crimea and absent in the Caucasus or in Asian colonies. Remember that the Russian idea, when there still was a Russia, was to connect to Constantinople, the Second Rome.
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