Also Tlozo: Lutherans have a federal right to witness their faith freely
Posted on 09/11/2021 2:57:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
Also Tlozo: Lutherans have a federal right to witness their faith freely
This stack exchange thread recounts the dialogue and offers some explanations, including the Sino-Soviet split. Summary: Mao wasn't happy about de-stalinization by Kruschev in the 50s so the USSR and China were far from friends despite both having communist roots.
In 1984 when Red Dawn came out, the idea of Russia attacking China as well as the West, while stupid strategically, was maybe not so unbelieveable in a plot line.
My point being is that everybody loved China in the 1980s, it was their “Charm Offensive” to our businesses when they started to take over manufacturing and building up their businesses at our expensive. But who dared the criticize them then?
That is silly. I've seen protests in Russia from Russian vloggers on YouTube and live on Bayklokov.live.
What Russia doesn't allow is violent protests like we do.
I noticed even Bald and Bankrupt went off on Putin a few months ago, I don’t think he’s been back to Russia since, been in Ukraine a lot, though.
I’ve seen several of his videos with Benjamin from Bald and Bankrupt. Benjamin’s videos with anyone are very entertaining.
Yeah, I don’t imagine they were seen as much of a threat back then. They were having bicycle traffic jams in ghe 80s.
The same thing was done with Olympus Has Fallen.
I like Bayklokov’s videos too, I really want to visit St. Petersburg after seeing his videos.
Russians have a long history of having "rights" in their constitution that the government never respected. The Soviet Constitution included a series of civil and political rights. "Among these were the rights to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly and the right to religious belief and worship."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union
If people have rights in Russia how do you explain what happened to the Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the chief executive of Russia's largest oil company and the richest man in Russia. He dabbled in politics, challenging Putin and was sent to prison for ten years. Russia confiscated all his oil wealth, deported his Canadian attorney and moved to disbar eight of his Russian attorneys.
"It is the Singapore model, it is a term that people understand in Russia these days. It means that theoretically you have a free press, but in practice there is self-censorship. Theoretically you have courts, in practice the courts adopt decisions dictated from above. Theoretically there are civil rights enshrined in the constitution; in practice you are not able to exercise some of these rights."
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
You mean the convicted fraudster oligarch who the Russian President eventually pardoned? Even the European Court of Human Rights sided with the Russian government in that case.
Was Elizabethan England totalitarian with their Anglican state church? Were the original colonies totalitarian with their various official churches which exiled non-believers? Was Rome or Greece totalitarian with their state pagan religions? Were the various Holy Roman Empires or Protestant monarchies totalitarian?
LOL, sure, all the oligarchs around Putin are honest oligarchs. Mikhail Khodorkovsky made the mistake of confronting Putin about his crooked friends.
In February 2003, at a televised meeting at the Kremlin, Khodorkovsky argued with Putin about corruption. He implied that major government officials were accepting millions in bribes.
On the morning of 25 October 2003, Khodorkovsky was arrested at Novosibirsk airport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky
“Been away so long I hardly knew the place
Gee it’s good to be back home
Waitin’ ‘til tomorrow to unpack my case...”
She's a very pretty girl:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp2tGdTScqY8KCIWw7yc5QA
And how do you explain Seth Rich, Jeffrey Epstein, and wave of death of Clinton associates by knife, gun, and “suicide”.
How do you explain the tremendous growth of Chritianty in Russia ans state sponsorship for the building and restoration of churches.
It’s enough of a twist to stand me on my head at times. In America today we have entered the US or them phase of conflict. Better them than us and we leave none of them to breed or their offspring. And that has never been my line of thought til recently. There is no lie they won’t tell and no deed they won’t do.
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