Posted on 08/22/2016 4:01:05 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Communists waving Marxist pamphlets and Twitter storms praising the Soviet Union are probably not what the thousands of Russians who rallied in 1991 against a coup by hardliners expected to see 25 years later.
And yet as Russia marks the symbolic anniversary of the August 1991 putsch this week, pro-Kremlin media have concentrated on nostalgia for the Soviet era, while officials have barred a rally by those who manned the barricades.
On August 19, 1991, a group of security chiefs and Communist bosses who opposed Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms declared themselves in charge, ushering in three days of turbulence.
Calling themselves the Committee for the State of the Emergency, they said Gorbachev had stepped aside for health reasons and sent tanks rolling into Moscow.
But crowds flocked to the parliament building to defend Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian republic of the USSR, who was seen as a symbol of democracy.
For the last 24 years, the people who were on the barricades have held a day of remembrance for the abortive coup that was a starting point for democratic Russia.
This year, Moscow city hall has for the first time refused permission to hold a rally outside Parliament, citing complaints about noise from locals.
“For 25 years we have been doing the same thing every year,” said Mikhail Shneider, the event organiser.
During the putsch, Shneider was one of the activists calling Muscovites to the barricades and distributing flyers.
“Rallies were numerous at first,” Shneider said, “but after Vladimir Putin came to power as PM in 1999, they started to decrease.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.co.ke ...
Ah comrades.....I miss those lines for food and toilet paper. And I miss the sandpaper feel of that toilet paper.
Nostalgia is all they have. Putinist Russia has no hope and no future.
Cue up “Midnight in Moscow” on the turntable...
comrade..... I look across the border at China.
They have taken up capitalist ways and are prospering. Why are we Russians still floundering?
Are Chinese racially superior to Slavs?
Understandable to some extent.
The old Soviet Union days weren’t so bad for the insiders and well connected.
They lived quite well on the backs of the masses.
They were just like our hypocritical political insiders today - preach socialism and lecture us how others should live but live like robber barons themselves.
Look at the Dirt Poor Clintons.
Look at Bernie Sanders and his new $600,000 vacation home.
After Trump wins the election the scammers and greedheads that he puts out of business will be nostalgic for the good old Clinton and Obama days.
I am dimwitted or is the gist of this AFP article is trying to suggest that the whole of Russia is waxing nostalgic for the Soviet communist era because a group was denied a permit to hold a rally, commemorating the end of Soviet communism in 1991, because they say (wink, wink) the rally is now viewed as an annoyance??
Frankly, I don’t blame whoever in Russia is trying to play down the inauguration of the Yeltsin era. Yeltsin was an embarrassing, bumbling drunk who forced Russia to recover from not only 70 years of communism, but immediately followed up by his reckless stupor, where Russia was looted by a cast of treacherous characters (oligarchs) and Western elites (e.g., Larry Summers) who designed the post-Soviet economy which shifted resources to the oligarchs.
Yeah, well so does the DNC, the RINO GOPe and the banking cabal...
They really seem desperate for another war to cover their tracks.
I feel the opposite. I feel that countries who embrace Christ have hope. While those who feel they no longer have need for Christ and embrace cultures antithetical to Christ, have no hope. Putin went from Saul to Paul. A former KGB agent who became a leader who incorporated Christian religious education in Russian schools and promoter of Christianity in Russia and defender of Christians aboard (especially in Syria).
Vladimir Putin, Christian Crusader?
This writer was startled to read in the Jan-Feb. newsletter from the social conservative World Council of Families in Rockford, Ill., that, of the “ten best trends” in the world in 2013, number one was “Russia Emerges as Pro-Family Leader.” In 2013, the Kremlin imposed a ban on homosexual propaganda, a ban on abortion advertising, a ban on abortions after 12 weeks and a ban on sacrilegious insults to religious believers.
There is only hope in Christ. Those countries who embrace Christ have hope. Those countries which don't, don't.
Based on the message from Our Lady of Fatima, for almost a century Catholics were told to pray for the conversion of Russia. Amazing what we see today.
Any country that promotes homosexuality as healthy and natural is doomed
The homosexual militants must be rooted out.
hmmm....
How bad are things in Russia today that there is nostalgia for the Soviet era?!
You forgot your sarcasm tag. You also failed to mention the ban on proselytizing, with no distinction made as to which religion. Of course, the Russian Orthodox Church gets a pass on having the law enforced. All other Christian denominations, YMMV.
I feel the opposite. I feel that countries who embrace Christ have hope. While those who feel they no longer have need for Christ and embrace cultures antithetical to Christ, have no hope. Putin went from Saul to Paul. A former KGB agent who became a leader who incorporated Christian religious education in Russian schools and promoter of Christianity in Russia and defender of Christians aboard (especially in Syria).
A Leader who embraces Christ does not run kleptocracy that allows their cronies to rob their country. A leader who embraces Christ do not invade their neighbors and murder over 10,000 of them. A leader who embraces Christ does not ban Christians from practicing their religion in their country:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2016/july/russia-ban-evangelism-effect.html
Sorry FRiend, you’ve been duped. KGB Vlad is no Christian. He’s a mass murdering thug. Nothing more, nothing less.
Putin went from Saul to Paul.
You forgot your sarcasm tag. You also failed to mention the ban on proselytizing, with no distinction made as to which religion. Of course, the Russian Orthodox Church gets a pass on having the law enforced. All other Christian denominations, YMMV.
Yeah, there is literally nothing Christian about the mass murdering KGB filth running one party state fascist Russia. But I guess loving eyes can never see.
I have a single sheet of TP I swiped from a train in West Germany when I visited in 1986. It is grey, very rough, and you can actually see little wood splinters in it. To be fair, this was public transport TP, the stuff they had in their homes was Charmin quality.
I have a single sheet of TP I swiped from a train in West Germany when I visited in 1986. It is grey, very rough, and you can actually see little wood splinters in it. To be fair, this was public transport TP, the stuff they had in their homes was Charmin quality.
As an American, I vividly recall my first trip to a train station mens bathroom in Europe. As I recall there was one price for a #1 bathroom operation and a higher price for a #2 operation that included a few sheets of that sandpaper TP. Ah, the good old days. LOL.
Ah the good old days of using PRAVDA toilet paper! Almost as slick as US military issued toilet paper.
I haven’t heard anything about if they plan to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The problem is that there are still many Russians who are partial to Czar Nicholas, or at least to old Imperial Russia that would take offense.
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