Posted on 08/25/2019 4:44:52 PM PDT by rintintin
Russian President Vladimir Putin rode into Sevastopol, Crimea on a motorcycle on Saturday to attend a biker rally organized by right-wing Russian nationalist group the Night Wolves, according to the BBC.
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Actually Stalin has experienced a resurgence of appproval under Putin — as well as the entire Soviet legacy. The Orthodox Church remains caught between State pressure to whitewash history on one hand, and genuine commemoration of all of all communism’s victims in the other. Ukraine’s segmented the Church has split from Moscow patriarchate due to its hyper politicization.
To this day the victims of USSR repression remain unacknowledged in any meaningful way save for a few convenient monuments here and there. There are still more monuments to Lenin.
*** Ukraine’s segmented the Church has split from Moscow patriarchate due to its hyper politicization. ***
The new!y minted Orthodox Church in Ukraine was orchestrated by the US. They had a big awards Ceremony for Mike Pompeo.
Typo:
Ukraine’s segment of* the ROC I meant.
There were rumblings since before Pompeo, but the Trump Administration created a more favorable geopolitical climate for such a move. This is true!
Crimea annexation did take place while Obama was world leader after all. Wouldn’t have happened under Trump.
Good point!
Probably the only Ural at the event, and probably brought there so Pootie-Poot would have something Russian to ride.
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To this day the victims of USSR repression remain unacknowledged ”
Haven’t they built a memorial to the slain Romanov family?
The Soviets closed and/or destroyed most churches. Many are being rebuilt or opened as I’ve read
Yes churches have been rehabilitated structurally and it’s true there is more spirituality embraced among the populace even if superficial— Lenin remains unburied, and plenty of Soviet stuff has been rehabilitated too.
Since the building of churches is the very antithesis of Marxist Leninism - and the Soviet state was officially and aggressively atheistic - your claim that little of substance has changed is a bit of a stretch to put it mildly. It reminds me of the guy who asked Mrs Lincoln how she liked the play, as if nothing more important transpired that evening
I have a vintage BMW from which the Ural was copied from. There is absolutely no comparison in the workmanship between the two bikes.
overall overall our social and cultural fabric is so compromised. I’d rather be living abroad to tell the truth.
Poland and Hungary are the only places at the moment that I would want to argue for as possibly being a clearly superior alternative (and I think it would be an argument—I’m not saying they clearly are conclusively, but all the other places I can think of would be marginally better at best). There are third world places that have a better cultural fabric, but I don’t have a third world immune system—one downside to being raised in the USA.
I think the Russian rank-and-file has always been quite patriotic. I think that a minority in California has been a major problem in this area from the 60’s, and at this point this minority and the Mexican-oriented folks make a majority.
I’m not sure which group is the plurality, but at any rate demographically I think my hope for California is roughly on par with my hope for the CSA—indeed, depending on how you want to define CSA, I’d give that better odds.
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