Posted on 05/06/2014 7:01:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Russian demography isnt exactly known for being a meme generator, but one short-hand term for the countrys demographic problems has caught on in a serious way: the Russian cross.
This name doesnt have anything to do with religiosity or with Orthodox Christianitys famously unique way of rendering the crucifix, but with Russias sudden plunge into catastrophic population decline during the 1990′s. When you graphed the absolute number of births and deaths, they changed course so radically that they bore a striking resemblance to a cross.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
People on FR are generally immune to NWO, UN, demoKKKrat, libtard, greentard, neocon BS and propaganda so long as the discussion involves territory within US borders... It’s a big ******* mystery to me why so many claiming to be conservative start wolfing that sort of kool-ade down the first minute the subject turns to Russia and Vladimir Putin.
Huh?
“The Russian Orthodox Church recently came under criticism for publishing a 2014 calendar in honor of Soviet mass murderer Joseph Stalin. Komov insisted the church was not directly involved in its publication.
However, scholar Keith Armes has observed that the Russian Orthodox Church survived the collapse of the Communist system and is having difficulty maintaining its identity and credibility after seventy years of faithful service to the Communist Party.
Former KGB officer Konstantin Preobrazhensky has called the church Putins Espionage Church, and devotes a major portion of his book, KGB/FSBs New Trojan Horse, to its use by the Russian intelligence service.”
You live in the US. Your knowledge and understand of Putin and his KGB ways I think is limited. The fact that living in the US, your church has certain beliefs and rituals does not mean that it is carried out that way in the Soviet Union (formerly known as Russia).
Do not be deceived. Putin is not a Christian.....He will say and do anything to get his way
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