To: GoldenState_Rose
‘In today’s Russia. It’s not uncommon to see icons of Lenin/Stalin side by side with Jesus in the homes of “the faithful.”’
So how many times did you personally see an icon of Stalin in people’s homes during all your years in St. Petersburg?
In order for it to be even marginally considered an icon, Stalin would have to be drawn with a halo around his head indicating the creator considered him a saint (contrary to the teaching of the Russian Orthodox Church).
72 posted on
11/11/2017 4:40:32 PM PST by
Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos
I actually slept under the two (icons of Stalin and Jesus) for a good while.
To: Mount Athos
I actually slept under the two (icons of Stalin and Jesus) for a good while.
Sorry! Icon* of Jesus. Portrait* of Stalin.
To: Mount Athos
77 posted on
11/11/2017 4:49:01 PM PST by
ETL
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To: Mount Athos
79 posted on
11/11/2017 4:51:03 PM PST by
ETL
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To: Mount Athos
From Sept (2016)...
Russia 'to revive the KGB' after Putin wins biggest majority
Telegraph (UK) ^ | 19 September 2016 • 3:39PM | Marc Bennetts
Russia plans effectively to revive the KGB under a massive shake-up of its security forces, a respected business daily has reported.
A State Security Ministry, or MGB, would be created from the current Federal Security Service (FSB) , and would incorporate the foreign intelligence service (SVR) and the state guard service (FSO), under the plans. It would be handed all-encompassing powers once possessed by the KGB, the Kommersant newspaper said, citing security service sources.
Like the much-feared KGB, it would also oversee the prosecutions of Kremlin critics, a task currently undertaken by the Investigative Committee, headed by Alexander Bastrykin, a former university classmate of President Putin.
The Kremlin has not commented. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
80 posted on
11/11/2017 4:51:18 PM PST by
ETL
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To: Mount Athos
Trump says NATO is obsolete but still ‘very important to me’
Reuters
January 16, 2017
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said NATO was obsolete because it had not defended against terror attacks, but that the military alliance was still very important to him, The Times of London reported.
“I took such heat, when I said NATO was obsolete,” Trump told the newspaper in an interview. “It’s obsolete because it wasn’t taking care of terror. I took a lot of heat for two days. And then they started saying Trump is right.”
Trump added that many NATO members were not paying their fair share for U.S. protection.
“A lot of these countries aren’t paying what they’re supposed to be paying, which I think is very unfair to the United States,” Trump said. “With that being said, NATO is very important to me. There’s five countries that are paying what they’re supposed to. Five. It’s not much.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-nato-obsolete-still-very-important-004548554—finance.html?ref=gs
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Exclusive: In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty - sources
By Jonathan Landay and David Rohde
February 9, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call.
When Putin raised the possibility of extending the 2010 treaty, known as New START, Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was, these sources said.
Trump then told Putin the treaty was one of several bad deals negotiated by the Obama administration, saying that New START favored Russia. ...”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-call-putin-trump-denounced-obama-era-nuclear-171036908.html?ref=gs
or,
https://web.archive.org/web/20170209182918/https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-call-putin-trump-denounced-obama-era-nuclear-171036908.html?ref=gs
82 posted on
11/11/2017 4:52:50 PM PST by
ETL
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